LEFT TO RIGHT: JAMES COOPER, JAMIE MORTON, AND ALICE LEVINE.
A few years ago, a newly retired father asked his adult son to review the first few chapters of his novel, Belinda Blinked. He’d never written fiction before, and did not elaborate on any sources of inspiration or his chosen genre. “He just said he had started writing, which I thought that was actually quite a good idea—keep him out of my mum’s hair,” recalls Jamie Morton.
Morton dutifully began reading. “The first line is ‘the job interviewer had just asked her to removed her jacket and silk blouse.’ I was like, ‘This isn’t a spy thriller…'” A realization came over him: his father “had been writing pornography secretly in the garden shed.”
Currently, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Morton’s podcast with his two friends Alice Levine and James Cooper, is midway through its third season—and the third installment of the Belinda Blinked series, which Morton senior has been busy writing under the pen name Rocky…
