After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless narrator fights to reclaim his life.
In prose that could peel paint from a car, Tony O'Neill re-creates the painfully comic, often tragic days of a recovering heroin addict.

Down and Out on Murder Mile: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

O'Neill, Tony

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Meet Jeffrey and Randal, two desperate junkies and your guides on this top-to-bottom fun-house tour of Hollywood's underbelly. From infamous crime scenes to celebrity treatment centers, Sick City is an outrageous page-turning adventure set in the sun-bleached wilds of LA.

Sick City: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie—the original lead singer of ‘70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways—powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and her struggle with drugs. An intense, behind-the-scenes look at rock music in the gritty, post-glam era, Neon Angel is a must-read for anyone whose heart beats to the rhythm of David Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Nick Gilder, and the Sex Pistols, and for every fan of the movie it inspired: The Runaways, starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett.

Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway

Arts & Photography

Currie, Cherie

History & Criticism

It Books

I wasn’t afraid of death. How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts, but in the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. Yet at the end of every binge, every night of lining up six, seven, eight crack pipes and hitting them one after the other bam! bam! bam! every night of smoking and snorting bag after bag of heroin . . . after all of that, when you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you start to think that instead of dying, maybe your punishment is to live---to be stuck in this purgatory of self-abuse and misery for an eternity. Sometimes you start to think that death would come as a blessed relief. Toward the end, I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn’t going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out. I sat on my parents’ sofa as I pondered this. All I needed was a gun. And then all-- of my problems-- would be solved.

Hero of the Underground: A Memoir

Sports & Outdoors

Peter, Jason

Biographies

St.Martin's Press

Hero of the Underground is the riveting New York Times bestseller.
I wasn't afraid of death. 
How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you.
When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined by dollar amounts but by the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. . . . 
I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn't going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out.
And all―
of my problems―
would be―
solved. "Had Hunter Thompson been a football player instead of a fan, this is the book he'd have written. Flat-out, mash-your-face-in-the-dirt amazing." ―Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

St. Martin's: Griffin

Gain the scientific knowledge you need to achieve excellence in home food production with this unique and in-depth guide by Tony O'Neill of YouTube's Simplify Gardening.

Simplify Vegetable Gardening: All the botanical know-how you need to grow more food and healthier edible plants - Veggie Gardening with a Side of Science!

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Cool Springs Press

Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a problem: He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant solution: heroin. Soon the narrator is associating with a cabal of street freaks. Just as the comedy is piling up, things go sour, making Digging the Vein a brutal look at a self-destructed, marginal life.

Digging the Vein

United States

Contemporary Press

Cutting edge fiction for cutting edge minds. Thirty-seven voices from around the world come together to bring you forty-six stories that defy easy categorization: grit-lit, urban, surrealist, raw, outsider, bizarro, fringe, experimental. Subtle, yet in your face. This anthology is not for the faint of heart - it takes chances, and so should you. Featuring new fiction from authors hailing from the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Includes stories by: Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.), Kate Holden (In My Skin), Tony O'Neill (Digging the Vein), Kristopher Young (Click), Jeremy Robert Johnson (Angel Dust Apocalypse), Carlton Mellick III (Satan Burger), Daniel Scott Buck (The Greatest Show on Earth), Henry Baum (Oscar Calibur Gun), Kevin Donihe (Shall We Gather at the Garden), Kenji Siratori (Blood Electric), Gina Ranalli (Chemical Gardens), and many more.

Falling From the Sky (Anthology)

Mellick III, Carlton

Holden, Kate

Listi, Brad

Young, Kristopher

Sands, Bradley

Literary

another sky press

"A beautiful looking object that is literally packed with great writing. You will want to own this, and return to it again and again." (Tony O'Neill, '3am Magazine')" A very unusual literary magazine for a number of reasons... [especially in] that all the short stories in it are worth reading." (Nick Mamatas, 'The Smart Set') 'The Savage Kick: The Early Years' collects the first four years of the influential - and controversial - literary magazine. Among the extensive 351 page book is an early 2005 interview with Doug Stanhope, a previously unavailable Joe R. Lansdale story, full page sections from 'The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt', and an extensive and exclusive 2006 interview with Jim Goad. The style is adult, with brutally confessional stories and somehow-even-darker-than-noir tales. Suicide attempts, drugs, alcohol and murder feature heavily in stories that descend into tailspins of self destruction. But it's not all morose despair... with many tales having a strong undercurrent of pitch black humour.The stories are accompanied by beautiful black-and-white art from Richard Watts and Steve Hussy.Full contents:--- 'Renewal' by Dan Fante --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Dan Fante --- 'Role of a Lifetime' by Mark SaFranko --- 'Tara' by Steve Hussy --- 'The Parks' by Thomas Salter --- 'Deviation' by Anna Caffrey --- 'Red' by Ricardo Daire --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Drive-In Date' by Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Balls' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Toothpick Whore' by Peter Wollman --- Exclusive Interview with Doug Stanhope --- 'Dance of the Seven Dwarfs' by Zsolt Alapi --- Savage Kick's article on great authors --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Mark SaFranko --- 'Haunting Refrain' by Mark SaFranko --- '2 Days - 2 Nights' by Frank Baron --- Savage Kick's article on comic-book writers --- 'Peepshow' by Joe Matt --- Exclusive Interview with Jim Goad --- 'Overture: Drowning In Shit' by Jim Goad --- 'Wilson' by Steve Hussy --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe Matt --- 'Peepshow: Sexaholics Anonymous' by Joe Matt --- 'Marooned' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' by Megan Hall --- 'Thought Crime' by Steve Ely --- Exclusive Interview with Tommy Trantino --- 'Captain Delicious and the Kid' by Tommy Trantino --- Savage Kick's battle with an online poet --- '3 New Poems' by Dan Fante

The Savage Kick Literary Magazine - The Early Years: Issue #1, #2, #3, #4 (Murder Slim Press XXX)

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Goad, Jim

Matt,Joe

Fante, Dan

Stanhope, Doug

Hussy, Steve

SaFranko, Mark

Trantino, Tommy

Independently published

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