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Savage Joy’s Debut at the Strand!
Signing Savage Joy at The Strand
Author Robert Dunn signing copies of his new novel, Savage Joy, at the Strand bookstore.
Howard Massey talking at Book Culture in Manhattan
July 28, 2016, great turnout. He’s holding a pic of the early Rolling Stones, whose booted founder Ian Stewart inspired Roadie.
Book Trailers & Videos
Savage Joy Book Trailer
Stations of the Cross Book Trailer
Stations of the Cross will be out in June 2013. Here’s the book trailer.
Look at Flower Book Trailer
We’re happy to announce our latest novel, Look at Flower, the picaresque tale of a runaway girl in the Summer of Love. So far the likes of Wavy Gravy, Dennis McNally, and JT LeRoy have raved about Flower, and we’re sure you’ll like her, too. To find out what Flower’s up to, visit her website: …continue…
The Charts: Top 40 Musical Fiction
#1 Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
Glimpses (1993) by Lewis Shiner A rock music aficionado finds a way to time travel and record some of the greatest moments in the history of the genre. “A pop-music fairy tale linking the Beatles to Bruno Bettelheim.” — The Village Voice “The outcome of Ray’s double quests is deftly handled and satisfying. He learns …continue…
#2 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity (1995) by Nick Hornby A record store owner obsesses over his collection and uses it as therapy to deal with his recent heartbreak. “Hornby’s amazingly accomplished debut should definitely appeal to music fans (and snobs), but it’s his literate, painfully honest riffs on romantic humiliation and heartbreak that make the book so special.” …continue…
#3 Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Telegraph Avenue (2012) by Michael Chabon Longtime friends and bandmates worry about the impending doom a megastore may cause for their record store, while navigating the trails and tribulations of their individual lives and struggling to keep their friendship in tact. “The novel’s central metaphor is jazz, soul and funk music: how it saturates the …continue…
The Jukebox: Articles, Fiction & Poems
Close to the Edge by Michael Fiorito
Holding a gun to my head, a kid with a black stocking over his face demands I hand over my cassette radio. The kid is flanked by another standing behind him, a stocking covering his head, too. My best friend Lan is only a few feet away.
I am fifteen; Lan is one year younger. …continue…
Adagietto By Jonathan Taylor
“I visited the elderly gentleman who called himself Dr. Gustav Mahler, of 22, Woodside Grove, Hanford, Stoke-on-Trent, only twice.”
So begins Jonathan Taylor’s remarkable short story of musical obsession—the first classical music fiction Coral Press has published. Enjoy.
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jazzophelia, a poem by Vivian Holland
Jazzophilia
I love not a man
but a sound. I hear it in the back of Smalls
rocking with my rosé, tasting sevens
in the dark as it all grows redder and golder. …continue…