Fellow Bookseller Turned Author!

Tattered Cover has taken a special interest in A Common Pornography because we know Kevin--he's the events coordinator at our "sister" store in Portland, Powell's. 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.

--Jackie