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Photo of Almost Rapist by Joyce Miller.

A dark-humor, true-crime memoir, Almost Rapist is a story told against the backdrop of the Great Recession, when Jöyce, a lapsed cult member and recent NYU acting school graduate, lands a Craigslist job assisting an Oscar-winning composer, filmmaker, and jingle writer on the eve of what she finds out is his Supreme Court rape trial following a near-deadly stroke. While her employer laments his physical recovery as the sole obstacle to his artistic and romantic comeback, Jöyce unravels mounting sexual-assault charges from newspaper accounts as reporters appear near her boss's Upper East Side apartment. Legal inquiries ... surveillance ... deception ... private investigators posing as lovers and victims ... murder and greed ... all converge in this stunning debut that strikes at the core of the Sacred Human State grappling with a world that's been built for Commerce.

Photo of Joyce Miller with candle.

PRAISE FOR ALMOST RAPIST

" … 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.

"As with much of Jöyce 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

∂ Photo of Joyce Miller.

JÖYCE is a native Philadelphian of Amish descent based in New York whose satire is published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency online and in their printed compendium, Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She was among the writers featured at the Brooklyn Powerhouse Arena book launch in October 2019, has written viral pieces that ascended to their Top Ten Most Read Articles of the Year in a matter of weeks, and was mentioned in AfterEllen and Autostraddle. Published works include Bluebird (Bottlecap Press, 2023) Pyramid Scheme (2023), John (Bottlecap Press, 2024) and inclusion in the anthology Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater.