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Jim Hall is a journalist based out of Long Beach, just like we are. Of course we know him - literary Long Beach is a small place (half of which uses the east-side Verizon server, by the way). He has reviewed readings we've sponsored and once interviewed me for his blog. He's also a poet and I've...

Hi everyone. We had a really cool Dan Fante-Tony O'Neill reading here in So Cal a while back. I hope some of you were able to attend. For those who weren't there here's a link to a nice review of proceedings. http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/general/last-night-underground-literat/ Sorry about...

Didn't mean to scold. We in the publishing business who takes chances and publish less "commercial" authors need some backup from readers or we don't survive--it's as simple as that. If Amazon would have been around in the 60s and 70s and people bought their Black Sparrow Bukowski books from...

Amazon is a good way to generate revenue and get an author better known--that's about it. I hope you don't use Amazon to buy used small-press books. If you do, then you're helping to kill the type of literature you claim to care about.

Yeah, Amazon completely fucks over small publishers. Everything you say is still dead on. I try to communicate this to people and have them get my books from the publisher, but people are just lazy.

For anyone who's interested, Kissed by a Fat Waitress, Dan Fante's latest book of poetry has just been published by Sun Dog Press. Has anyone here read it yet? http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/springtime-for-fante/

Glad you liked those lines. That's weird about the link. Let me try it again. http://robwoodard.blogspot.com/

For Anyone Interested I guess this is the right forum to post this link. I wrote this poem (or poems) a while back and recently posted them on my blog. Seems like stuff you Buk-heads might find interesting. Actually, since everyone is just posting their stuff right onto the blog, I guess I...

Birthday Party's Where it's at How could anyone be into The Bad Seeds more than The Birthday Party? It was with that band that Cave truly made his contribution to rock and roll. Speaking of old Aussie bands, did anyone besides me catch Radio Birdman when they came thru the U.S. a while back...

No problem. I'll keep everyone informed. Just posted an excerpt from The Boiler Room on the site if anyone's interested. http://www.burningshorepress.com/

Dan's New Stuff Just thought you all might want to know that Dan's got two new books coming out. Burning Shore Press will be releasing his play The Boiler Room probably in the late summer/early fall. Also, Kissed By a Fat Waitress, a book of poems, will be out on Sun Dog. I'm not sure of the...