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Stevan Allred
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Black Wax
Book Review
Black Wax: The Notorious Confession of Alexander Wokowski Benjamin Watson (Xlibris) America is knee-deep in wannabe novelists. I know, because I’m one of them, and so are most of my friends. So I understand all too well Benjamin Watson’s frustrations with the world of traditional publishers, a world which refused to publish his first two […]
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THE WHORE OF BABYLON
Richard Meltzer and the Mischief of the Rockcrit
RICHARD MELTZER is the author of several books, including L.A. Is The Capital Of Kansas, The Night (Alone): A Novel, and, most recently, A Whore Just Like The Rest. Whore is a collection of Meltzer’s writing about music, mostly rock and roll, over the last four decades. Meltzer claims to have invented, along with Lester […]
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POEMS READ, 50¢
First Thursday was as busy as it ever gets, the cream of Puddle City’s bourgeois bohemians out for their monthly art schmooze. The sidewalks of the Pearl were so packed, people had to turn sideways to squeeze by each other. A glass blower operated from the bed of a pick-up truck. Laid out on the […]