An intriguing book due early next year is Chris Offutt's
My Father, the Pornographer, in which he writes about the experience of having a father (Andrew J. Offutt) who--supposedly in order to pay the young Chris's orthodontic bills--turned enthusiastically to churning out great heaving piles of pornographic books. I'll review the book itself when it's published (something of an introduction can be found
here), but I thought I'd take this opportunity to look at the marvellous cover design by hero-of-this-blog Jamie
Keenan (about whom more posts
here).
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| Touch it for a bigger version, as one of Offutt's protagonists mighthave said |
In fact, the good-girl-art images used by Keenan here are astonishingly sweet and innocent compared to the depictions of women on Offutt's actual books, almost all published under various pseudonyms by various dodgy outfits.
