A Common Pornography

A Common Pornography
Kevin Sampsell
This collection of vivid prose snapshots from HarperPerennial is not your usual memoir, though it is, according to Samp sell, all true. Much of it concerns girls, sex, and porn, as he dives into a career as a radio operator while trying to find true love—or at least get laid. His accounts of his first fumbling forays into sex are amusing, and at times moving; he also weaves in his family history of dysfunction (including incest and mental illness). This slim but powerful book manages to be both laid-back and affecting.