Thus Deep In Prayer, The Coltrane Poems is a poetic tribute to John Coltrane. A spiritual biography of his life and legend. Most of the poems were written inside of a couple weeks in October of 2018. I was driving along back to my apartment and listening to 'One Down, One Up' again -- the orange double-disc recorded live at The Half Note -- which i hadn't heard in a while. It was on this drive all of a sudden when everything hit me all at once. The energy and trajectory of the man and his quartet; the intention of…
Nowhere Near Hollywood is the fifth major instalment of the 'Max Zajack' series.
Familiar to readers across the world from the earlier novels, this time around Max, after years of struggle to get his writing recognized, decides impulsively -- and unwisely -- to try his hand at acting in order to get his career off the ground. If anything can bring him attention, he tries to convince his skeptical and long-suffering girlfriend, Gayle, it's recognition as a performer. After all, the most powerful man in the world -- the President of the United States -- is himself a flopped "B"…
This is early Ridgwell, the first installment in a series of seven books chronicling the fast life and strange times of Beat vagabond - Joseph Jago. In Essex Nights, we find Jago saying sayonara to an underwhelming and underachieving state education and about to enter the dreaded but unavoidable world of work. From here on in, Jago embarks on a series of dead end jobs, from city messenger to carpet fitter and apprentice upholsterer, junior sales rep, toy salesman and builders labourer, to finally working in a ceramic tile warehouse, where Jago plots his eventual escape from endless drudgery.
Sandwiched in between the high turnover of jobs is Jago’s hectic social life, a whirlwind of girlfriends, sex, drugs, boozing, and petty criminality. Accompanying Jago on his hedonistic pursuits is his literary sidekick, Ronnie Perrot, as they crawl from one pub, bar, and nightclub to another in this fast-paced and riveting novel.
