On January, Friday the 13th, 2012, Iris Berry and A. Razor made a pact to publish prose, short stori
So, Dan Denton reminded me in his post about his wonderful book $100-a-Week Hotel (check it out!!) that Cody Sexton had also reviewed my books, Scars and Driving In The Rain. Here is the link to his review, and both can be purchased on Amazon or my website.
Because Life is too Short to Read Bu****it
Now you can get Patrick O'Neil's "Anarchy at the Circle K" on Kindle!!!! Yes, it's true! ☠️
Anarchy At The Circle K: On The Road With Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans and… He**in
The book trailer says it all! Out now on Punk Hostage Press!
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Trailer for PATRICK O'NEIL'S newest memoir; ANARCHY AT THE CIRCLE: On the Road with Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans, and... HE**IN. Publisher: Punk H...
Joe Donnelly is the writer's writer. The raconteur's raconteur. He has supported and celebrated me and so many other writers along the way. He has kept me inspired and made me believe that what I do has purpose. But that’s Joe. He sees and writes with his heart. And he writes phenomenally. Joe's love for Southern California and its denizens pens itself elegantly from his compassion for the human condition and his deep appreciation for an ever-changing West Coast aesthetic that Joe himself has helped shape. Publishing this book is a real honor. ~ Iris Berry ✨⭐️✨
So Cal: Dispatches from the End of the World by Joe Donnelly https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940213185
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I'm excited to announce my new book, "The Trouble with Palm Trees" out now on Punk Hostage Press! The perfect stocking stuffer!!
Available now: shorturl.at/hwET5 ✨🌲
A. Razor & his beautiful baby Eva. Razor & I launched Punk Hostage Press Friday the 13th of January, 2012. As we come up on our 10th Birthday it’s hard to believe our only goal was to publish 2 books, his book “Better Than a Gun in a Knife Fight” and my book “ The Daughters of Bastards.” And here we are 40 books and counting…. Amazing things happen when you follow your heart. ✨
“Razor’s writing is nothing short of a reckoning. It’s an homage to the wounded, the forgotten, the survivors. It’s an artist coming to terms with life. From lost children and lost childhoods, to broken dreams and busted love, from street gangs to skid row, prison philosophy to street level book smart, Razor takes the discarded pieces of thrown away people and crafts their stories into something beautiful. Razor’s poetry will keep you up too late and wake you in the morning with ice cold reality. “
~ Dan Denton, author of $100-A-Week Motel.
Me giving Pleasant Gehman her book advance for “Rock ‘N’ Roll Witch”.
Out soon on Punk Hostage Press!!
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A friend & a mentor to myself & many others, I was honored to help edit & publish his autobiography, he was a true catalyst for the cultural wave that swept thru the world in the last 70 yrs… he helped concoct the first acid test & ran Hustler after Larry Flynt almost got assasinated… his editorial & reporting style influenced everyone from Ken Kesey to Hunter Thompson to the Hustler editorials that were no holds barred freedom of speech tell it like it is journalistic integrity which is seldom seen anymore… good night, dynamiter, your acid test was passed & you have graduated to the technicolor dimension just beyond the far horizon of furthur… ~ A. Razor...🔥❤️🔥
Pictured here is Maxi, who most of you probably know as MisMaxine Murr Derr, front woman and violinist for the punk goth band “Death on The Radio”. She can also be seen playing her violin in the 2019 TSOL video, “Is This a Wonderful World?” She’s a big supporter of the Press and a rare gem! I fu***ng love this woman! Thank you, Maxi for your big heart and for all you do! ✨☠️✨
Pleasant Gehman who is my dear, dear friend, has been a big important part of .hostage.press since the beginning. In 2013 we released her phenomenal memoir, “Showgirl Confidential” and I’m thrilled to announce the release of her new book, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Witch” coming this Hallloween 2021. I can honestly say this is her best book yet! And that’s saying a lot! I’m honored to have her on the Press! ✨☠️✨
check out Nadia's latest interview! love to hear her talk about both of her books together. Scars & Driving in the Rain--they complement each other so well. AND they're on sale if you get them through her website https://www.nadiabrucerawlings.com/ ❤ ❤ ❤
Author Nadia Bruce-Rawlings uses grains of her once gritty life to infuse her stories with cathartic realism. She grew up traveling the world
Razor’s beautiful wife & baby, Monika Velvet & lovely Eva modeling the new Punk Hostage Press t-shirt! Baby and kid sizes coming soon! ✨☠️✨
Jack Henry's new book, "Driving w/ Crazy, Living With Madness" is out now on Punk Hostage Press! We are honored to release such an important and beautifully written book, and I wish to thank everyone who made it possible! This incredible collaboration of very talented individuals; edited by Puma Perl, introduction by Rob Plath, cover illustration by Billy Burgos, and cover layout by Michele McDannold. Thank you all so very much!
Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940213150
A review of my first book, Scars, published by Punk Hostage! Available on Amazon.
BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Jon Michael Miller for Readers' Favorite
Scars by Nadia Bruce-Rawlings is a biographical anthology of the author’s early life of abuse and addiction. It consists of 11 stories/vignettes, and two poems, all of it dominated by her early molestation by her father that took her from what should have been an idyllic childhood to a desperate life on LA’s streets. She writes of hatred so powerful that she metaphorically sets her newly released ex-inmate dad on fire. She adds her family quarrels in Egypt, her mother’s degradation, a diner owner and drug dealer on Pico Boulevard, and most amazingly the physical scars on her own body. She describes a decadent, elderly gay Renaissance man who wants to marry her, her newborn daughter’s resemblance to her dying mother, an old coyote in the desert, and she recalls her days on the streets of stealing, crack, jail, violence, and rehab. She writes of the “sunshine of recovery” and of exchanging old memories for new. Ms. Bruce-Rawlings prose is gritty, real, honest, and brave. She goes where the proverbial angels fear to tread.
Scars by Nadia Bruce-Rawlings is a deeply moving reading experience. After I read it in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down, I shed some tears, took a walk in the spring sunshine, and finally wished I was close enough to her to give her a hug, first for her suffering and then for her emergence as a survivor of horrendous pain. She says she is happy because it all led her to her present life. I’m sure this book has captured her anguish and struggle so that she can place it outside herself and on the shelf. But her acquired wisdom and strength are here for us all to learn from and to provide us lucky ones, who’ve had life relatively easy, with empathy for those who never had a chance. Her writing will motivate her readers to lend a hand where they can. In the end, beauty can transform misery to art and to freedom, and with all the grim reality in Scars, it’s the exquisiteness of Ms. Bruce-Rawlings’ prose and her strength to convert an ugly truth into the transcendent majesty of the human spirit. God speed, Ms. Bruce-Rawlings, and many thanks for your courage to share.
Check out my interview with Dan Denton, author of "$100-A-Week Motel", I'm still laughing... I love the Blue Collar Gospel Hour. Thank you, Dan Denton!
Iris Berry is one of the originators of the underground Hollywood punk scene. She's an actress, writer, punk rock lead singer, and co-founder, publisher and editor extraordinaire of Punk Hostage Press. We talk about my book, $100-A-Week Motel, out now on Punk Hostage Press, and we talk about music,....
Punk Hostage Press is proud to announce the release of Dan Denton's new book, "$100-A-Week Motel" Available now on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/y37j7sqa
"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, sudden heroes wait to punch the time clock and ashtrays overflow with twice smoked twisted butts. There is a cheap bible hiding inside the table at the bedside of every room of this motel that among others, contains the outlaw gospels according to Charles Bukowski, F.A. Nettelbeck, and Fred Voss; the poetic catechism of ordinary saints. And if you press your ear to it, spirituals of the divinely real can be heard inside an earful of peeling paint. Come, let Dan Denton take you to his burning river where you can meet the practitioners of a sincere and wounded faith found only in the lobby of this $100 a Week Motel." ~ S.A. Griffin, from his foreword. Author of "Dreams Gone Mad With Hope" and editor of "Outlaw Bible of American Poetry."
Iris Berry is the author of All That Shines Under The Hollywood Sign and The Daughters of Bastards. She’s also the co-founder and editor of Punk Hostage Press. I hope you enjoy the show and b…
Punk Hostage Press author spotlight today is on Nadia Bruce-Rawlings and her new book, "Driving in The Rain."
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 to stealing batteries and pregnancy tests to support her crack habit and sharing day-care motherhood with st*****rs. She is fearless in presenting both worlds and sketching the twilight zone between them, showing us that the struggles of adolescence in a dysfunctional family in the Middle East have their counterpart in the daily struggles of an addict, equally a foreigner in the surface world of respectability in any American city. Turning horror to hope, as we have seen in so many tales that have held our attention through the ages, can give even the most sordid journey a golden destination, and it does so here.
~ Rob Simbeck, from his introduction.
Get it on Amazon or signed from Bruce-Rawlings' website www.nadiabrucerawlings.com
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Punk Hostage Press is proud to announce our newest release, "Burden Of Concrete" by William S. Hayes. Click the link below to get your copy! 🖤
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Sunday, March 8th, 2020 Punk Hostage Press will be celebrating our 8th year Anniversary at Library Girl Ruskin Theatre. I cannot tell you how much this means to me. Joining Susan Hayden and I will be PHP writers, Jack Grisham, SA Griffin, Pleasant Gehman, Annette Zilinskas, A. Razor, Richard Modiano, Rich Ferguson, Annette Cruz, Dennis Cruz, Michael Marcus, and William S Hayes. Music by Mason Summit, and a special tribute by Bianca Smith + Blaise Smith reading the poetry of Yvonne De la Vega's. Party@6 PM, Show @ 7 PM. $15 includes a taco cart + cupcakes. Limited seating. Purchasing Tix in advance highly recommended! Go to www.ruskingrouptheatre.com, look for Library Girl icon to Buy Tix.
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All That Shines Under The Hollywood Sign by Iris Berry (Punk Hostage Press) “It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that...
My new book, "All That Shines Under The Hollywood Sign" is available now on Amazon! Cover and Illustrations by Scott Aicher. Introduction by Joe Donnelly. Edited by Michele McDannold. Punk Hostage Press in association with Citizens for Decent Literature! Yay!!! 🖤
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940213053/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
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 the Hollywood Sign, the two worlds collide. She marvels about the way jazz glides “its way/down translucent highwa....
Rich Ferguson's brand new spoken word/music video ! Incredible!!!
L.A. spoken word poet Rich Ferguson offers step-by-step directions regarding how to approach your inner child when it's wearing headphones. Credits: Written ...
Check out this great interview with Jack Grisham by Tony DuShane on Drinks with Tony
http://www.drinkswithtony.com/jack-grisham-ep-28/
Jack Grisham is the author of An American Demon: A Memoir, Code Blue: A Love Story, A Principle of Recovery, and I Wish There Were Monsters. He’s also the founder and lead singer of T.S.O.L, …
Dennis Cruz talks about his new book, "The Beast Is We"...
So, can you tell us something about the title? I know this is your third collection of poetry to be published and I’ve always wondered about how authors choose a title. Your other two were i…
Check out this incredible review of Danny Garcia's "Looking For Johnny" !!
‘Cause I wanna be there wit cha and I know what to bring … Ya don’t get no respect until ya die, if you’re a friend of mine… ALONE IN A CROWD (-by Daddy Rollin’ …
Dennis Cruz has been writing and performing his poetry for over 20 years. Born in Costa Rica and brought to the United States as a young boy, he inhabits the voice of the perpetual outsider and the purely American dissident. Cruz is the author of No One: Poems 2009, and Moth Wing Tea. He has been published in numerous anthologies as well as online publications including THE CHIRON REVIEW, The Nervous Breakdown, Crush Fan Zine, and Sensitive Skin Magazine. He has lectured at the USC Community Literature Incentive, the Harvard-Westlake preparatory school, as well the LA County Jail for men and women. He was also selected as one of the newer poets to watch, by the ALOUD series at the Los Angeles Public Library. He lives in Northeast Los Angeles with his wife and son.
His latest collections of poems The Beast Is We is now available: https://www.amazon.com/Beast-We-Dennis-Cruz/dp/1940213045/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1544503679&sr=1-1&keywords=Dennis+cruz+the+beast+is+we
The Beast Is We By Dennis Cruz...
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For all you Johnny Thunders' and New York Dolls fans. Check out this awesome interview about Danny Garcia's book "Looking For Johnny, The Legend of Johnny Thunders" on Punk Hostage Press with PUNK GLOBE MAGAZINE www.punkglobe.com! Much Love to you, Ginger Coyote! Honored!
Iris Berry Of Punk Hostage Press Talks About Releasing Looking For Johnny: The Legend Of Johnny Thunders By Author Danny Garcia by Ginger Coyote
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