Ann and John Brantingham spent nine summers volunteering and living in a van in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks away from wifi, electricity, plumbing, and anxiety. This experience brought them back to themselves. Kitkitdizzi is their dual memoir, Ann’s in graphite drawings and John’s in short essays. These summers gave them the time to stop […]
Author Archives: Dennis Callaci
Ann and John Brantingham’s “Kitkitdizzi: A Non-Linear Memoir of the High Sierra” book and trailer premier
Ann and John Brantingham spent nine summers volunteering and living in a van in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks away from wifi, electricity, plumbing, and anxiety. This experience brought them back to themselves. Kitkitdizzi is their dual memoir, Ann’s in graphite drawings and John’s in short essays. These summers gave them the time to […]
“Shaolin Days and DeKalb Nights” by Victor Gastelum and Robert Vodicka is out today on Bamboo Dart Press
Victor Gastelum, known for the artwork he did for numerous punk rock flyers, cover art for SST records and a slew of Calexico releases as well as collaborative work with Josh Bayer and Raymond Pettibon among others branches out with his first collection of abstract images in this book with longtime friend Robert Vodicka, the […]
Victor Gastelum and Robert Vodicka Short for their new book on Bamboo Dart Press premiers
Graphic artist Victor Gastelum, whose work has graced many a punk rock flyer, SST and Calexico record cover among a plethora of other works has collaborated with writer Robert Vodicka, a veteran music head whose work at New Alliance records in the 80’s to early 90’s and stint as a DJ on KSPC on their […]
Michael Loveday on his new book “Do What the Boss Says” out today on Bamboo Dart Press
I had the conversation below with Michael Loveday on the eve of the street date of his new book out today on Bamboo Dart Press. You can find the book at your finer independent bookstores, yer gross big box sites or direct from us here. Your novella in flash, Three Men on the Edge offered a number of […]
Michael Loveday trailer for his new book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Michael Loveday’s new book Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood is out on November 5th. You can preorder it here. Hear a reading of the story The Glass House from the book in the trailer. Do What the Boss Says: Stories of Family and Childhood is a collection of short-short stories […]
Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci Halloween radio special October 19th on KSPC
Join me and the spooky silence of the ghostly Bill Chen for our weekly show on KSPC 88.7 in Claremont this Wednesday from 10am to noon. A haunting two hours of Halloween horror awaits. Bill returns in his earthly form with me on the 26th when we will celebrate scented candle day.
Peter Wortsman Borrowed Words book on Bamboo Dart Press out today
Peter Wortsman’s book of cut up poetry is out today. It features both the original cut ups mirroring a translation on every other page. Wortsman is a poet, essayist and novelist and in Borrowed Words his dependance on the words of others does not hinder his creative ear and offers some playful pieces of art […]
Bill Chen & Dennis Callaci DJ on KSPC every Wednesday 10am to noon PST
Bill Chen and I are off to a sputtering start as we return to KSPC to co-host a show together. Bill hosted the show At Random among others from the late 80’s into the new millenia, while I toiled behind the board for a decade and a half doing a show weekly. You can listen […]
Third short film for Marc Zegans’ Lyon Street premieres
Third and final short featuring a reading by the author and visuals of Noah James Saunders third sculpture influenced by the poem from which Zegans’ reads.