The Gordon family lives in a pleasant house on a tree lined street in Berkeley. The kids are grown. Howie and Carly Gordon, together for four decades, now enjoy a quiet life. They're the perfect all-American family -- with a twist.
Long, long ago, the dad was a porn star. A very famous porn star known as Richard Pacheco.
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Austin Smith grew up on a family dairy farm in Illinois. He has published four chapbooks of poetry, and his first full-length collection of poems, Almanac, was published by Princeton University Press in September. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University.
When people ask what do you do, you tell them... ?
I say I'm a poet. If they ask, "How are you going to make any money writing poems?" I ask them, "How are you going to make any poems writing money?" It usually confuses them so much they leave me alone.
