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| The Loose Canon (Paperback - New) |
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Full blurb:
Issue one of this new lit mag on the block, The Loose Canon features "fiction that flies under the radar" from thirteen underground writers, including Dan Fante, Mark SaFranko, Tony O'Neill, Heidi James, Rob Woodard, Joseph Ridgwell and Melissa Mann. The title of the mag reflects the editors' stance against the idea of a literary canon, as defined by academia and the literary establishment. Their intent for this lit mag is clear: "to provide a free, unfettered forum where vision and passion trumps critical theory, where guts and gusto outweighs craft and teach-ability, and where grit and honesty... dumps on antiquated tradition."
The groovy front cover is a work of art in itself and was designed by Richard Watts and Steve Hussy of Murder Slim Press and The Savage Kick fame. To call The Loose Canon a lit mag is actually to do it an injustice because this has the look and feel of a high quality paperback book.
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First page first lines:
From ‘Sin Will Find You Out’ by Dan Fante:
When I first got to New York City I had just turned twenty years old. It was the 1960’s. I lived on Fifty-First Street in Hell’s Kitchen in a rooming house, a forlorn old shithole of a building that was at least a hundred years old. The manager who rented me the room was a very cagey guy, a midget-prick named Frederik. He was originally Ukranian and pretended little knowledge of American.
I was shown the place on the fourth floor and rented it on the spot. A walk-up. It had a bed, a table and two chairs, and two eight-foot high curtain-less windows facing the street. No kitchen, just a rattling old sink in one corner and a community bathroom down the hall for all the residents on my floor.
What Frederik did not disclose to me turned out to be the reason my place was less expensive than the others on the 4th floor: fifty-five bucks a week. My room faced a building across the narrow street, a sort-of converted mission for homeless Christian drunks…
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Various including Dan Fante, Mark SaFranko and Tony O’Neill
About Siren Song Publishing:
‘We are a small independent press based in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) dedicated to publishing outstanding fiction by Canadian and international authors who write outside the norms and expected conventions of the popular literary establishment. The writing featured here is controversial, honest, and passionate, and all our contributors share a common vision about the role of the writer as the purveyor and voice of authentic experience.’
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Publisher: Siren Song Publishing
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Reviews:
“…despite their gritty, dark contours, coarse diction and at times appallingly degenerate characters, most of the pieces succeed because of the subtle, unpretentious, at times poetic, but always honest attention paid to craft and to detail. One thing that unites the stories, whether they come from Britain, the U.S. or Canada, is a plain-spoken, direct mode of narration devoid of excess verbal baggage or false emotion. Though many of the stories fall under the “confessional narrative” tag – Dan Fante’s and Mark SaFranko’s certainly do – there’s enough variety of voice and approach to keep the reading fresh.” Salvatore DiFalco, Toro Magazine. To read the full review, go here.
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| Book code: BTD030 |
| Price: GBP £ 6.50 |
| USD $ 10.00 |
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