The Coin Cold Heart of Darkness

Some artists don’t or can’t tour. They don’t meet and greet. They are not on Ex or Insta or some sort of Abra app dopamine delivery. They work a few jobs maybe, or raise kids, and tend to that art thing in the late eves, between things. So the artist is not here, near or …

Patrick John Brayer’s “Cold Coin Heart” book on Bamboo Dart Press is out now worldwide

Patrick John Brayer was raised on an egg ranch in the steelmill town of Fontana, California. Think Hell’s Angels, think Sammy Hagar, think Shelton Brooks. Developing a unique style of writing early on as an answer to his inability to speak, he went on to receive an education in music from an array of dirt parking …

Patrick John Brayer’s “The Coin Cold Heart” trailer premiere

Patrick Brayer has released thousands of songs and nearly a hundred self released records, as well as one on Shrimper a few years back. When you visit his Blog, Field Notes From Wrongtario, you will see and hear the artifacts of his life. Photos of him with Bill Monroe, music and photographs he has created …

Karen Greenbaum-Maya’s “Eve the Inventor” book is out now.

Eve the Inventor by Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a hybrid collection of poems, prose, and short fiction inspired by the Jewish story that God will not destroy the world as long as there are 36 good people, good souls in it. The characters in this collection aren’t secular saints, they are decent people, deeply decent, struggling against …

Meg Pokrass “Old Girls and Palm Trees” book is out worldwide today on Bamboo Dart Press

Meg Pokrass’ third book for Bamboo Dart Press is out today and available at better independent bookstores, lesser big boxes and direct from us. Her unique voice and groundbreaking work in helping to define Flash Fiction has been seen and published in New England Review, Five Points, McSweeney’s, Passages North among others and have been …

Meg Pokrass’ “Old Girls and Palm Trees” is out now on Bamboo Dart Press

Meg Pokrass’ third book for Bamboo Dart Press is out today and available at better independent bookstores, lesser big boxes and direct from us. Her unique voice and groundbreaking work in helping to define Flash Fiction has been seen and published in New England Review, Five Points, McSweeney’s, Passages North among others and have been …

Robert Scotellaro’s From the Book of Atmospheres is out now on Bamboo Dart Press

From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant. Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric in unexpected ways. In these tales, imagination is a welcomed guest. And it is clear that light and dark can, in easy union, inhabit …

Robert Scotellaro’s Second Bamboo Dart Press book due shortly

Robert Scotellaro’s From the Book of Atmospheres is out on April 25th. “The spirit of my father was trapped inside my ballpoint pen,” Robert Scotellaro starts one of his truly delightful new stories. “Must have slipped in when I was changing the refill.” Hilarious, inventive, audacious, Scotellaro’s quick fictions pack a real punch, whether they …

TM Givens “Diaries and Letters” book is out now on Bamboo Dart Press

What we see in this series, apart from the beautifully recognizable style of artist TM Givens, is the constricting space of pandemic-era living. Compared to his Garden Prayers series on Pelekinesis and the recent Coffee Shop drawings, whose fluid lines and outward observations express a sense of openness and connection, these drawing convey the isolation …

Trailer for TM Givens Diaries and Letters book on Bamboo Dart Press premieres

Tm Givens’ Diaries and Letters is out on February 25th. On display in his latest is his always beautifully recognizable drawing style. combined with the constricting space of pandemic-era living. Compared to his “Garden Prayers” series on Pelekinesis and the recent Coffee Shop drawings, whose fluid lines and outward observations express a sense of openness …