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ALMOST RAPIST After her parents lose their house in the mortgage crisis and spend six months living in an extended stay motel, Jöyce, a recent NYU acting school graduate and lapsed cult member, takes a Craigslist job assisting an Oscar and Grammy winning jingle composer following his near-deadly stroke, on what turns out to be the eve of his Supreme Court rape trial. While her employer laments his physical recovery as the sole obstacle to an artistic and romantic comeback, Jöyce unravels accumulating sexual-assault charges from newspaper articles as reporters appear near his Upper East Side apartment. Legal inquiries...surveillance...deception...murder...greed...old classmates hired as private investigators...all converge in this stunning dark humor debut memoir about a diametrically opposite, impossibly fated odd couple forced to grapple with the dark side of the entertainment industry against the backdrop of the Great Recession.

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""...it has been a long time since a book left me reeling like this...Jooks is so vividly drawn, so 'real, '...as merely a reader, I am so affected by Jöyce's struggles, by her amazing powers as an observer and as a commentator, and of course by the excesses of Jooks, that I am simply blown away."" -Tony Ortega, Former Editor-In-Chief of The Village Voice; Author of The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper; Editor-In-Chief of The Underground Bunker. ""I couldn't put this down. Miller evokes what it feels like to be young, broke, and trapped in the orbital grasp of someone toxic-and she makes it funny, heartbreaking, and real...This book is as disturbing as it is hilarious. Almost Rapist takes you into the wild world of celebrity, power, and survival! Miller's genius and sarcastic biting wit and brutal honesty is refreshing in a time when the truth is hard to find but always better than fiction..."" -Michael Fontana aka Eileen Dover ""As with much of Joyce Miller's odd yet captivating work, I am not sure what I just read, but I definitely want to keep reading it."" -Christopher Monks, Editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Author Information

Joyce Miller has written Almost Rapist: A True Crime Memoir (Enthusiast Press, 2025). Chapbooks: Bluebird (Bottlecap Press, 2023), John (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Poetry: Pyramid Scheme (Bookleaf Press, 2023). Anthology: Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater (Rowman & Littlefield 2020, Bloomsbury 2024), Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency (McSweeney's, 2019). Online Satire: McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Mentions: ""McSweeney's Top Ten Most Read Articles of the Year,"" AfterEllen, Autostraddle. Awards: The Handmaid's Dianetics (Best Satire, United Solo Festival). Born and raised in Philadelphia, she lives in New York.

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