WestVirginiaVille

Checking in with former prostitute and porn star and current eco-sexual activist Annie Sprinkle on her New York Times Book Review of Chester Brown’s “Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John.”

Huntington, West Virginia stars in one of Harvey Pekar’s final books in his lifelong project of chronicling the average moments in an average – if rumpled and depressed and obsessive-compulsive – guy’s life.

A quote by Meredith Sue Willis offers a sense of how Lee Maynard’s writing gets to people: “I ask myself: Why is this foul-mouthed, sexist, scatological, hillbilly-stereotyping novel one of my all-time favorites?”