“Prisoner of X: 20 Years at Hustler”

Working your way from college dropout to editor-in-chief of a major national magazine sounds like the wet dream of every wannabe journalist in America. However, when that magazine happens to be Hustler and your boss happens to be Larry Flynt, you may end up with more than you bargained for. Just ask Allan MacDonell, whose book "Prisoner of X," tells the story of two decades he spent reviewing naked photos by the hundreds in between coke-fueled staff meetings, all while serving under a manic, penny-pinching employer. (Hmm ... sounds familiar.) We offer not one, but two author interviews to give you a taste of the madness, while we calculate how many more years we must toil in the porn mines before we can sell our own memoirs. If the answer is twenty, we may have already gone blind by then.

· Interview: Allan MacDonell (spacecadetz.com)
· "The X-Man's Last Stand: Former Hustler editor Allan MacDonell exposes himself" (reason.com)
· Prisoner of X @ MySpace (myspace.com)
· Order: "Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine" (Amazon)

Previously: "Barely Legal" Turns 60, DVD Review: "The Da Vinci Load", Mason Goes Hustler, Hustler Lingerie, Ladies of the Hustler Club, Hustler Galleries