NOW IN AUDIO: DEATH OF TEDDY BALLGAME
THE PLAGUE DITTIES BY JIM NISBET
Forthcoming from MOLOTOV EDITIONS, November, 2023. Poetry from internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet JIM NISBET. A seminal figure in the West Coast Noir Renaissance, Nisbet wrote this book during the worldwide pandemic, finished shortly before his death in September, 2022.
“Lethal Injection is an unheralded masterpiece of the Noir genre. Everyone who loves Noir should read this brilliant book.”— James Ellroy
“Jim Nisbet is a poet...[who] mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless.” — Drood’s Review
Read moreVOLT 27: MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS (2023 Issue coming soon!!)
EDITED by Gillian Conoley. Issue 27 features cover art, Line of People in Purple by Katherine Bradford, and new fiction, poetry and visual art from Jeffrey Pethybridge, Julie Carr, Carolina Ebeid , Brandon Downing, Maxine Chernoff and more…
Read moreGillian Conoley: A Little More Red Sun on the Human (Poetry Video)
Video poem by Gillian Conoley featuring the author reading from her A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected (Nightboat Books). Premiered as digital short in Reel Poetry Film Festival 2022.. (66 seconds)
Read moreSORROW (Morning Ritual)
Video Graffiti: Featured digital short at Houston Reel Poetry Film Festival 2022., with sound track by Digital Palmettos. Shot on location at liquor store parking lot in Corte Madera, CA,. (50 seconds)
Read moreIN REVIEW: ELENA KNOWS by Claudia Piñeiro
“Hitchcock is a woman: she is called Claudia Piñeiro and she lives in Buenos Aires.” Corriere della Sera
Elena Knows, by Argentine crime novelist Claudia Piñeiro, take as its main character an aging widow—suffering from end stage Parkinson’s—whose only daughter has been found hanging from the bell tower of the neighborhood church in Buenos Aries. Translated by Frances Riddle.
Read moreThe Infamous ZACK KOPP on Denver, the Beats, Automatism and his latest novel HAPPINESS, a genre bending thrill ride from Camp Elasticity Books
From the Interview:
“I started writing spontaneously after discovering Kerouac when I was about fifteen and experienced a very clear connection to that wellspring … In Happiness—that automatism plays through my main character, freelance writer Wally Jack Mack., and his infatuation with extra-dimensional medium Kartinie Thinie … I guess you could say I was channeling Wally Jack—as a fictional character—similar to the way he channels Kartinie …”
Read moreFRESH RAVES FOR COOPER AND THE SYNDICATE
FEATURED ON CRIMEREADS.COM 2018 LIST OF MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READS
“Molotov Editions’ reissue of Cooper’s classic take of criminals and shake dancers, The Syndicate, is a wonderful first step in restoring the crime community’s knowledge of a long forgotten writer, and one of the premiere African-American voices in the genre." CrimeReads.com
After 58 Years, First U.S. Reviews on Cooper's The Syndicate
Clarence Cooper Jr.'s noir novel, The Syndicate, first appeared in the U.S in 1960, published under pseudonym, but it wasn't until a few days ago that the first U.S. reviewers took notice of the book, including Nancy Oakes at her well-regarded blog, Crime Segments, and Eric Peterson at The Internet Review of Books.
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