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A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
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A Common Pornography

by Kevin Sampsell

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Future Tense Books (2002), Paperback, 60 pages

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Folks in the book world may recognize this author's name--he's Powell's Bookstore's event coordinator. He's written quite a bit in the past (LIT, Hobart, McSweeney's, Night Train just to name a few journals and web sites, as well as two short story collections of his own) and is the editor of Portland Noir. He's also the publisher of Future Tense Books. But this book is different--this is personal, about his family and his life as a young man that he calls "a memory experiment". Written in short vignettes primarily, this book is brutally honest and gritty. He glosses over nothing--abuse, drugs, sex, relationships of all sorts. He's not the sort to change much of anything to protect
the innocent because frankly, none of them are that innocent. This book is bold and brave and extremely difficult to put down. ( )
1 vote JackieBlem | Oct 29, 2009 |
It's droll style and its archaeological attentiveness to the debris of American life combined with Sampsell's talent for observing the ordinary, infuse the most "common" incidents of growing up with wit and meaning.
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