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>May 4, 2008 - Rob Woodard has just published two new poems on his blog King of Long Beach. We hope you check out the poems and the blog in general - it features some very interesting stuff.

May 1, 2008 - Tony O'Neill's review of of the novel Lounge Lizard, by Mark SaFranko appears in the latest issue of dogmatika. Mark's a good friend of BSP and a wonderful writer. We hope you get the chance to give him a read

April 18, 2008 - An excerpt from Dan Fante's The Boiler Room has just been posted in Dan's section of BSP's Writers Corner. Look for additional excerpts from this play in coming weeks.

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SONGS FROM THE SHOOTING GALLERY, by Tony O'Neill - NOW RELEASED!

Songs

SONGS FROM THE SHOOTING GALLERY: POEMS 1999-2006 by Tony O'Neill

Songs From The Shooting Gallery is an amazing, relentless, and highly dangerous poetic ride thru the drug netherworld of Los Angeles, England, New York, and beyond that somehow manages to break free of this dark subject matter and find light and humor in the most unexpected of places. It is also a caustic social manifesto that takes to task both the U.S. and U.K. for what they've allowed themselves to become at the beginning of this new century. Stark and uncompromising, these poems pull no punches and ask no quarter. They also instantly establish their author as one of the most important writers working today.
160 Pages
Publication Date: June 18th, 2007


DON GIOVANNI - The New Play by Dan Fante

DF-two plays

DON GIOVANNI: A PLAY by Dan Fante

Coming to the end of his life, the once great novelist turned Hollywood hack, Jonathan Dante, is forced to deal with his other legacies: his disintegrating health and profoundly dysfunctional family. Jonathan struggles to make sense of his relationship to his sons as they play out the drama of their broken lives before his fading sight, in a manner that ultimately causes the false choices of all to be revealed. With Don Giovanni Dan Fante has created both a brutal and loving homage to his late father the novelist/screenwriter John Fante, as well as an invaluable work in the development of American drama and devastating critique of the American Dream.
130 Pages
Publication Date: April 25, 2006


HEAPING STONES - Rob Woodard's Debut Novel

Heaping Stones

HEAPING STONES: A NOVEL by Rob Woodard
(Introduction by Dan Fante)

Wandering half-drunk thru his shattered life in Long Beach, California, an all-but-failed writer searches for no less than redemption thru his relationships with three women and his on-going battle with past, and ultimately pushes himself to the edge of his sanity as he begins to understand both the sorrow and beauty of the decisions he has made. Alternately angry and redemptive, Heaping Stones takes off from where John Fante and Charles Bukowski left off and sets the new standard for the L.A. novel.
144 Pages
Publication Date: December 15, 2005


Upcoming Publications

WHAT LOVE IS a novel
by Rob Woodard
Spring, 2008

THE BOILER ROOM a play
by Dan Fante
Summer, 2008

KING OF LONG BEACH poems
by Rob Woodard
Fall, 2008

Writers Corner

Excerpts from works by:
Dan Fante Updated  
Tony O'Neill 
Rob Woodard

Interviews

Behind the Mask?
Dan Fante Interviewed by Rob Woodard

Reviews & Essays

Bukowski Stinks
"The People Look Like Flowers at Last"
by Charles Bukowski
Reviewed by R.K. Wallace

Holding Steady: The Resurgence of Bob Dylan Part III
"Modern Times"
by Bob Dylan
Reviewed by Rob Woodard

A Voice of Rage and Renewal
"The Last Person to Hear Your Voice"
by Richard Shelton
Reviewed by Rob Woodard

Driving Desire Underground
"New Orleans, Chicago, and Points Elsewhere"
by Gerald Locklin
Reviewed by R.K. Wallace

Reviews & Essays Archive