Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester

Bob Levin "Lurid and fascinating... loathsome (and)... compelling." UTNE Reader

photo credit: Budd Shenkin

Author Biography

Bob Levin was born in Philadelphia March 14, 1942. Since 1968, he has lived in Berkeley with his wife Adele, a writer and retired psychotherapist. An attorney, he has represented the injured in workers' compensation cases for more than 35 years.
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Influences

Starting out, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler. Currently, Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm -- and Will Cuppy for the footnotes.

Favorite Books

A Man With a Maid (vol 1-3); Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees; Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, The Recognitions.

Favorite Authors

Aside from "Influences," Flannery O'Connor, A.J. Liebling, and Elmore Leonard.

What I'm Reading

The Cage; The Fifties; No Ordinary Time; True Story of the Kelly Gang;The Pale Criminal; And the Band Played On.

Most Outrageous: The Trials and Trespasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester

Synopsis:

As cartoon editor and chief cartoonist for HUSTLER magazine, Dwaine's Tinsley's most notable creation was Chester the Molester, a monthly gag cartoon about a hulking middle aged man, who had a predilection toward pre-pubescent girls. And then his 19-year-old daughter accused him of five years sexual abuse.

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