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Burning Shore Press, Publisher of Literature News & EventsKeep Independent Presses Independent! - Buy Directly Thru The Publisher Whenever Possible October 8, 2009 - The Burning Shore Review has been relaunched! Come check out the the arts journal of Burning Shore Press in its new format at its new home. Note: all the reviews and interviews that have appeared on this site are now archived at the Review. THE BOILER ROOM - The New Play by Dan Fante - COMING SOON
THE BOILER ROOM: A PLAY by Dan Fante Dan Fante's first full-length play examines money and power-driven world of high-stakes telemarketing, and by extension the basic hypocracy and corruption of the surrounding society. Named one of the year's best new plays when initially produced in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, The Boiler Room sizzles from beginning to end with manic, angry dialog that's somehow often laced with an odd, caustic kind of hope. WHAT LOVE IS - The New Novel by Rob Woodard - COMING SOON
WHAT LOVE IS: A NOVEL by Rob Woodard This angry spitball of a novel examines romantic love as a type of addiction, no less dangerous than, say, heroin or alcohol dependency. Lost in his own pain and confusion, an aspiring writer finds himself violently in love with a selfish young woman he does not repsect or even like very much, then begins slipping into a relationship that in the end can be nothing other than profundly destructive for the both of them. A companion work to Heaping Stones, Woodard's first novel, What Love Is is if anything a more powerful and disturbing work. SONGS FROM THE SHOOTING GALLERY - by Tony O'Neill
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. DON GIOVANNI - The New Play by Dan Fante
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. HEAPING STONES - Rob Woodard's Debut Novel
HEAPING STONES: A NOVEL by Rob Woodard 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. |
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