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Iris Berry
In The Trouble with Palm Trees Iris Berry takes you on a tour of Los Angeles that’ll haunt you like one of the City’s famous unsolved murders. Her writing is…
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In this portable collection of prose and poetry, Gas Station Etiquette, Iris Berry takes us on a tour of her Los Angeles. Her love for certain gas stations, chance encounters…
Pleasant Gehman
Showgirl Confidential chronicles just some of Pleasant Gehman’s amazingadventures, from over thirty years spent constantly on the road. Fromcross-country punk rock tours in the early 1980’s to her belly dancingescapades…
Danny Baker
What happens to lost daughters trying to find their way home with the only road map being the bowing palm trees pointing the path? Where does love exist if not…
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix is the true story of one woman's quest for self-education, in academia and beyond. As the reader follows a low income punk rock grrrl into…
Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus takes us on a wild adventure through the darkest depths of addiction, sexuality, deceit, and depravity with a raw grace and eloquence that brings to mind the voices…
Drawn from interviews conducted by director Danny Garcia for his acclaimed documentary LOOKING FOR JOHNNY, this oral biography of the legendary Johnny Thunders includes first-hand recollections from those who knew…
Dennis Cruz
Cruz, poet, and singer, creative, receptive and sensitive, knows about the essentiality of form in word and sound, in the visible and the tangible. He does not disdain what appears…
Writer Iris Berry has always been fascinated by the reality of modern-day Hollywood and its glittery history as Tinseltown, and in her new collection of poetry, All That Shines Under…
Jack Grisham
Jack Grisham’s short story about high school loner James who develops an infatuation with the exciting, rebellious Marla. A Tragic teenage love story with a twist of an ending. Based…
Dayna Rodela
A. Razor has experienced a second birth and an allowance of past and present works to converge on the same path. Razor gives us silhouettes of words dancing under dim…
Dan Denton’s $100-A-Week Motel is a hallelujah chorus of proletariat madness, and a fine, sweet madness it is. In this modest motel, the circus comes to town, love is possible…
Anything bad you think you’ve done Jack Grisham has done worse. Trust me. Any edged-up, fucked out, terminally violent, self-lacerating hell-party you may have staggered into, Grisham got his mail…
Joel Landmine
If you want to read about subversive pop culture, stanky substance abuse, dejected relationships, overt self-depreciation, and the despair of living in a dystopian future, then Joel Landmine is your…
Nadia Bruce-Rawlings
Nadia Bruce-Rawlings takes us from childhood scenes in Egypt, with servants and vacations on Cyprus, to the most sordid of L.A. streets, from parties in Cannes and karaoke in Tokyo…
