I feel so much inner conflict having finally read this book. On the one hand, I quite enjoy the odd smut title, but reading about a man who was prolific in his production of the genre was a little gross. I know. Double standards right? I think I liked it but I didn't like it. I'm very confused. Thank you for approving this title for me and I'm sorry it has taken me so long to review it.

How does your understanding of your father change when you learn that he wrote more than 400 books in his lifetime -- most of them pornography? Upon his father's death, Chris Offutt (author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Kentucky Straight) is left to sort through his father's office, which is filled with books, manuscripts, correspondence, comics, graphic novels, etc. Offutt's memoir is spare and incisive -- and occasionally heartbreaking -- as he seeks to understand his father's life and his own memories of growing up.