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Songs from the Underground

Joseph Ridgwell Author Of Burrito Deluxe

From Joseph's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Joseph Ridgwell Why Joseph loves this book

Songs from the Underground. The finest collection of literature to be published this century. Contemporary names alongside famous cult authors of the past. The importance of this collection cannot be underestimated.

In this book you will read the truth, the reality of the universe, and encounter zero censorship. Unlike the mainstream, where publishing conglomerates employ legions of nefarious sensitivity readers to weed out anything that doesn’t fit the party line, Songs from the Underground, embraces total creative freedom.

Sure, you’ll be offended, now and again, but so fucking what? I mean, if you want to go through life without being offended, then you might as well buy a one-way ticket to Disneyland.

Featuring work by none other than William Blake, John King, Joseph Ridgwell, Stevie Smith, Sonia Hadj Said, John D Robinson, Henry Lawson, Sophie Parkin, Ford Dagenham, Jose Arroyo, Mike Mahoney, The Marquis de Sade, H P Tinker, Hosho…

By East London Press ,

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1 author picked Songs from the Underground as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Songs from the Underground. The finest collection of literature to be published this century. Contemporary names alongside famous cult authors of the past. The importance of this collection cannot be underestimated. In this book you will read the truth, the reality of the universe, and encounter zero censorship. Unlike the mainstream, where publishing conglomerates employ legions of nefarious sensitivity readers to weed out anything that doesn’t fit the party line, Songs from the Underground, embraces total creative freedom. Sure, you’ll be offended, now and again, but so fucking what? I mean, if you want to go through life without being…


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Book cover of The Rosewood Penny

The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!

The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

Mink Hollow Cabin Songs

Joseph Ridgwell Author Of Burrito Deluxe

From Joseph's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Joseph Ridgwell Why Joseph loves this book

Mink Hollow Cabin Songs is a short series of poems written in the Summer of 2018 in woods near the Esopus Creek in New York during a cabin getaway with my love at the time, and then later designed, printed & handbound in Wallingford, PA in 2019.

The poems here are the companions of the prose piece To Infinity, Within, also handbound by the author, and written during the same trip in 2018.

By Mike Mahoney ,

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1 author picked Mink Hollow Cabin Songs as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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