Bunkie Spills by Bradley K. Rosen
ABOUT THE BOOK
Bunkie Spills is a novel about two momentous days in the life of a tribe of suburban L.A. teenagers set in 1976. Bunkie, whose view of the world is as charming and skewed as the malapropisms that come out of his seventeen-year-old mouth, begins the tale with a girl and a rock concert.
Things start to fall apart for him and his high school sweetheart, Evelyn, when Bunkie realizes there’s something more than friendship going on between her and Big Pete, the oldest member of their tribe. Then the entire tribe does heroin for the first time, thus beginning Bunkie’s quest to listen to his broken heart over the long night that unfolds.
Bunkie maintains his essential honesty and innocence through two days filled with illicit drugs, sex and violence, and celebrates his dawning understanding of the failings of youth, the fight of good over evil, peace on earth, and the clashes that exist between humans and nature.
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1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9982429-1-0
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback, May 2017
Edited by: Matty Byloos
Cover Art by: Matty Byloos
Cover Design by: Matty Byloos & Olivia Croom
Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
305 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution
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PRAISE FOR BUNKIE SPILLS
“Bunkie Spills gives us some of the freshest, most-frenetic, kinetic, prophetic, dynamic, slam-bam, cut-loose writing in years. Brad’s voice, his voice is Salinger-only-better, a young Barry Hannah, a slacker Fitzgerald. Here is someone new worth reading.” – Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke
“You’ll never see so many people fit into a Volkswagen van as in Bunkie Spills. Bradley K. Rosen’s writing is a blast of voice, hilarious as the Keystone Cops but with a darkness. This amazing first novel is a surprising celebration of the inarticulate speech of the heart – that, and Brad’s deep sense of humanity is sure to make you weep.” – Tom Spanbauer, author of In the City of Shy Hunters and The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon
“Having grown up in Southern California myself, I found Bunkie Spills to be a visceral and emotional kick in the nuts. I know these words, I hear them, I smell them, I taste them. A perfect capture of sublime loss and joy. The feeling when sad stories make you proud.” – Jerry Joseph, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and international touring artist
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Up South by Robert Lashley
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Up South, his second book of poems, Robert Lashley has gone deeper into the rituals, folklore, and ceremonies of Black Tacoma. This is a book about cities within cities, where the present has roots in decades of history, and the evidence of things unseen still guides people’s actions. In different forms, voices, and modes of rhetoric, Lashley paints complicated, moving pictures of environments, and people trying to survive in them.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-9-1
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback, March 2017
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover Art by: Matty Byloos
Cover Design by: Matty Byloos & Olivia Croom
Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
88 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution
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Pretty Much Dead by Daphne Gottlieb
ABOUT THE BOOK
Beyond the surface glitter of tech wealth currently overwhelming cities like San Francisco are the interstice communities that have barely survived the onslaught. In the streets, in transient hotels and in rent-controlled buildings, the residents settle and search, trying to hold on in the city at the edge of the world.
In these stories, Daphne Gottlieb chronicles inner and outer worlds, shedding light on the significance of a cat, the larger meaning of a parking ticket, the violent mutability of an indoor hurricane, and the contents of a bag as the owner stalks like a wounded tiger through the streets, dragging the memory of her objects through the collection itself. Artful, heartrending, clear-eyed and darkly magical, Pretty Much Dead is part fable, part witness, and part chorus, giving words to the voices that are only heard when they start to yell.
2nd Edition: Small Doggies Press 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9982429-0-3
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Second Edition, October 2016
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover Design by: Matty Byloos
237 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution
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Humanly by Stevie Edwards
ABOUT THE BOOK
Stevie Edwards’s Humanly bravely and vulnerably confronts the complexities of living with mental illness in a voice that is equally feral and crafted. Through a gorgeous and gorge-filled landscape, these poems struggle with dislocation, past sexual trauma, grief, the chronic looming of psychiatric wards, and a constant attempt to redirect patterns of suicidal ideation.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-8-4
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Edition, March 2015
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover Art by: Natasha Law
Cover Design by: Olivia Croom
Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
Type set in Palatino & Optima
148 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution.
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The Homeboy Songs by Robert Lashley
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Homeboy Songs is Robert Lashley’s complex homage to the black community of Tacoma, Washington. As part of a Northwest population with people from the deep South and a survivor of the Hilltop gang wars of the early 90’s, Lashley’s poetry makes sense of the multitude of voices that have surrounded him over the years. His passion joins high lyric poetry burnished by narrative structure, with a language attuned to the ear and the complexities of the human voice.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-7-7
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Edition, April 2014
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover Art by: Matty Byloos
Cover Design & Layout by: Matty Byloos & Olivia Croom
Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
Type set in Sabon & DayPosterBlack
102 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution.
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