William T. Vollmann encapsulates our time in words like no one else. And Ken Miller captures it in photographs like no other. A perfect marriage of art. Skinheads, prostitutes, drug addicts. They're all here in all their whorish glory and beauty.

Whores and undertakers are the eternal optimists. from Whores for Gloria

And this, the most perfect sentence I have read in years:

How divinely diminutive my dress would be if there were no flesh and stubborn bone to keep her from maximizing her minimalization. from The Rainbow Stories

Only true artists can put a beautifully divine glowing spotlight on the damned. ( )

Miller's pictures speak for themselves. Though Vollmann is a writer I'm coming to like more and more, his text was unnecessary. ( )