Andrew Nette, novelist and essayist, takes a look back at Clarence Cooper Jr's The Scene in anticipation of Molotov Editions release of Cooper's The Syndicate.
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Lost crime classic from Clarence Cooper, Jr., a black crime writer from Detroit whose first novel, The Scene, was a literary sensation. Believed to be too raw, and possibly damaging to his literary career, The Syndicate was published under pseudonym in 1960, a hard-hitting, fast-paced story plunging into the psycho-sexual depths of a ruthless enforcer sent to retrieve syndicate money.
Read more5 Books from Molotov Editions: Our Catalogue Now
The Syndicate, Clarence Cooper, Jr, forthcoming June, 2018; Tzara's Dada Manifesto translated by Shelley Award Winner Gillian Conoley; The Death of Teddy Ballgame, play from bestseller Robert Mailer Anderson; The White Devil, Hammett Prize Winning Molotov Original from Domenic Stansberry; and Stansberry's Edgar Winning The Confession, in e-book for first time.
WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF THE DOLCE VITA: W&N ACQUIRES THE WHITE DEVIL
For Immediate Release
W&N ACQUIRES ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ NOIR THE WHITE DEVIL
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired an ‘exceptional and compelling’ (Publishers Weekly) noir by celebrated American crime writer Domenic Stansberry, pitched as reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith and Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty. Published in U.S. by Molotov Editions
Read moreTHE WHITE DEVIL NAMED WINNER OF NORTH AMERICAN HAMMETT PRIZE
The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers is pleased to announce that The White Devil, by Domenic Stansberry (Molotov Editions), has been named the winner of the organization's annual HAMMETT PRIZE for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing.
Read moreJoanne Kyger Memorial: On the Mesa, Bolinas, California
Photo Gallery: 31 Photos from Joanne Kyger Memorial, on the Mesa, Bolinas California, near old RCA Antenna Farm. Readings from Kyger's letters and poems. Party after at Joanne's and her husband Don Guravich's house. CLICK RIGHT TO SEE PHOTOS.
AWARDS: MOLOTOV EDITIONS AND THE WHITE DEVIL
Domenic Stansberry's The White Devil, released by Molotov Editions back In October, 2016, has been named for four different awards, including a number of Independent Press Awards, shown above, and is currently a finalist for the prestigious Hammett Prize, along with the Thin Man Trophy, the winner of which will be announced in October, 2017.
THE CONFESSION: EDGAR WINNER NOW IN E-BOOK
STANSBERRY'S CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL NOIR RELEASED BY MOLOTOV EDITIONS IN E-BOOK. COVER PHOTO BY PETER ROZOVSKY.
This neo-noir thriller stirred controversy when a dissenting judge on the Edgar Award Committee broke with tradition to condemn the selection of this "amoral" novel for Best Paperback Original. The novel tells the story of a forensic psychologist accused of strangling his mistress—and does so through the unnerving, charming, intelligent, often unreliable voice of the accused himself. Originally published in mass paper by Hard Case Crime,in 2005, this e-book edition from Molotov Editions features a cover photo by Peter Rozovsky, author of the influential blog Detectives Beyond Borders.
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Gillian Conoley Receives Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry: NYC
Poet Gillian recieved the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in recognition of a body of work at mid-career, at the National Arts Club in Grammery Park on March 29, 2017. Molotov Editions is the proud publisher of her recent translation of Tzara's Dada Manifesto, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love, done in limited first edition of 120 copies, signed and numbered. Gillian is a poet, translator and edtitor, author of 7 books of poety, including Peace (LA Times Book Finalist), The Plot Genie, Beckon, and Tall Stranger; translator of Michaux's 1000 Times Breaking, from City Lights; and long time editor of Volt; A Magazine of the Arts.
She is pictured above, left, at the ceremony, along with Susan Howe--winner of the prestigious Frost Medal for lifetime achievement in poetry. Also shown (below) are Monica Youn, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, and Jericho Brown, who won the Lyric Poetry Award.
Others here include friends and poets Dale Going, Katie Lederer, Elena Rivera: visual artist Hawley Hussey; crime novelist Domenic Stansberry, and Molotov Collaborator and Assistant Editor Gillis Flavia Stansberry.
Also, from the night before, Yusef Komunyakka, past Shelley Memorial Award winner, with Gillian at the Zinc Bar near NYU.
Pachanga Music Bash @ People's Mansion, SF, for Los Cenzontles
Linda Ronstandt together with Molotov Author Robert Mailer Anderson co-hosted musical bash featuring David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and rocker Dave Alvin to benefit Los Cenzontles: a school of arts and culture for young people, with special focus on contemporary manifestations of native and ancient traditions in music and the arts with roots in Mexico and Latin America.
Highlights below. Photos by Beth Stansberry.
Los Cenzonteles Folk Band, using native instrumentation (see below)
Playing percusson on goat's jaw. Real goat, real jaw.
Linda Ronstandt with Eugene Rodriquez, co-founder and musical director of Los Cenzontles, a community school operating out of the East Bay, in San Pablo and Richmond area for 20 years. Linda is a long time supporter. Los Cenzontles is a band, school, community hang out, and attracts musicians working in rock/polka/Cal-Tex-Mex traditoins to its Pachjanga jams from all over the country.
Dave Alvin (of Border Radio fame) playing "Fourth of July" with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Eugene Hernandez (right) and accordian player Flaco Jimenez (left). Pete Sears is on piano (Jefferson Starship).
During the later jam bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Jay Walsh and saxman Patrick Wolff (Patrick Wolff Trio) joined in.
Dancers.
World Famous Molotov Editions Photographer Beth Stansberry with poet and translator Gillian Conoley (works including--among many others-- On Feeble Love & Bitter Love, a fresh annihilation of dada manifesto by Tristan Tzara--just released from the infinite vaults of Molotov Editions)
Robert Mailer Anderson on stage with daughter Frances singing vocals, with back-up from Dave Hidago of Los Lobos and Los Cenzonteles Pachanga Jam musicians
Genuine Victrola: wind-up device that plays early recordings surpisingly loud with no use of electricity whatsoever. A purely mechanical device from before the electric era which piped music into the room before the concert itself began.
COLLABORATORS
Others piped in and dancing, wandering through the Pachanga dancing included the blessed and obscure, the divine and the bedridden, the holy and the forgotten, animals and dogs, some pictured above and others lost in the crowd: actors Edward James Olmos and Mykelti Williamson; sax player Joshua Redma; teachers and artists Lorena Oropeza and Astrid Rodriguez; former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous; photographers Jim Goldberg and Allesandra Sanguinetti; , Paul Pelosi; Oscar Villalon (Zyzzva); Mary Ladd; Peter Marvelis (City Lights Books); Julie Lindow; Peter Kaufman; Gina of Miami (whose Chicago father is renowned Karate sensei), Gina's sister in the wild pink skirt; and variois members of the Anderson-Miner clan together with Molotov collaborators from Ukiah to San Leandro who remain unidenitfied by design or happenstance in the shadows.
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