DISCLAIMER A Voluntary Crucifixion is a literary fiction. Any resemblance in this volume to living cucks, barking moonbats, blue-pillers, or to similar conveyors of swivel-eyed ideas, alive or dead, is purely coincidental. WARNING: Voluntary Crucifixion is not a substitute for prescription medication. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms […]
Poet, novelist, filmmaker, world traveler, raconteur, rounder and roust about, Blaise Cendrars blazed an arc across the star-lit skies of modernity. Originally published by Denoel in 1952, Cendrars Speaks… is a collection of radio interviews and memories of his life and times. From surrealism, to cubism, to the French novel, Cendrars was enormously influential. Modernity […]
He saved me. Cendrars, that is. Not for what he was – one-armed legionnaire, millionaire three times over, bankrupt, tracker of African and Brazilian tales, inventor of French modern poetry. Thief of Chagall’s paintings, drinking pal of Modigliani. Vagabond. Ah, wait … vagabond. That word begins this story. Vagabond. That came like a message from […]
“The setting for Leper Tango is rue St-Denis, a notorious stretch of Paris with some of the Western world’s seediest hookers, pimps and reprobates. The story takes place during the last decade of the 20th century, a time when, to quote the novel’s protagonist, Franck Robinson, “the whole planet was for sale”. “What […]
“A howl against the self-important world of living literature…I laughed out loud several times, and underlined dozens of witty turns of phrase.” – Marianne Ackerman Rover An Independent Review of the Arts “This is literature red in tooth and claw; exhilarating, exhausting, relentless, Flagship sustains a pace of breakneck proportions throughout. At times the novel, […]
Briefing for a Descent into Hell Born on September 11th. Your birthdate “humanity’s other calamity”. For the first eighteen months, you behave impeccably, little mewling, random puking. Then the colic hits with a vengeance and when kin and progenitor declare war, you hit them back with air-raid volume, eardrum-shattering vengeance. You sense the presence of […]