David Noone grew up in a small rural village in Co. Kildare, Ireland. At 14 he was first admitted for what would become a continuous series of psychiatric hospital admissions to receive treatment for Recurrent Depressive Disorder. Despite this, he began his professional writing as a music journalist for the regional arts revue Stage Left. Noone, having little access to formal education within the confines of the hospital, immersed himself in the works of Poe, Camus, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud whilst listening to the music of The Virgin Prunes, Throbbing Gristle, and The Birthday Party. At 18 he moved to Dublin and worked in and around the arts world. Over the course of this period he had several poems published in literary journals and acted as lead singer and songwriter for his bands Poppy and David Noone and The Night Porters as well as touring Britain and Ireland with his solo show David Noone sings Nick Cave. He lives and writes in Dublin, and his first novella is the gothic "Saint of the City".

Saint of the City

Literature & Fiction

Noone, David

Genre Fiction

Murder Slim Press

"It came one day, fully, by itself, without prodding, urging, even without thought: Does the river know the rower's gone? Does the rower know the river is still here?" (Seymour Shubin, Why Me?) In a writing career spanning over six decades, Seymour Shubin has focussed almost exclusively on fictional and crime stories. Whilst such crime classics as Anyone's My Name and The Man From Yesterday feature Shubin-like alter-egos, these forty poems mark his first truly autobiographical work. Why Me? is by turns touching, funny and thought-provoking as Shubin looks back at his childhood in the Great Depression, the nature of loss and the shadow of death that looms over us all.

Why Me?

Seymour Shubin

Poetry

Spiral Out

U.V. Ray

Contemporary

"Does my present world suck? Like a gaping chest wound. But it's all part of the ride. There's no sense in crying about it; nobody likes a whiny bank robber. If you like what you read, please buy my books. If I get any poorer I'll be down eating sparrows with The Chinaman."[Jeffrey Frye, Bank Blogger] In 2012, Murder Slim Press received an unsolicited submission called Prison Prose from a notorious bank robber named Jeffrey Frye. What has followed is a long standing correspondance with Frye. . . and then MurderSlim.com's Bloggie-nominated Bank Robber's Blog. Bank Blogger is the first of numerous books that will collect stories unavailable on the Bank Robber's Blog, and provide you with the ultimate introduction to everyone's favourite felon. Bank Blogger is a limited edition chapbook of only 200 copies. You snooze, you lose. It's also packed with photos from Jeff's life inside and outside prison, and the various people that have an impact on his world.

Bank Blogger

Jeffrey Frye

"She turned around and smiled and said, 'I didn't see you standing there. I'm sorry.' I dropped my voice an octave to put some bass in it and said, 'Not half as sorry as you're getting ready to be because I need you to put your hands flat on the counter and not make any sudden movements. . .and I need you to remain calm and breathe. Do you understand what's going on here?' "As I said this I arched my left eyebrow and gave her what I call, 'The Bank Robber Big-Eye.'" (Jeffrey Frye, One Crazy Day)After his arrest that followed a lengthy manhunt in 2009, Jeffrey Frye was termed a "serial bank robber" by authorities. He is now serving a 20 year prison sentence. One Crazy Day takes us through a standard day in the life of your favourite felon, as he juggles his drug addiction, a money grabbing girlfriend and - of course - one of his seven bank robberies. One Crazy Day is limited to 200 copies. . . grab your own slice of the Bank Blogger's life while you still can.

One Crazy Day

It's here, folks. The SAVAGE KICK LITERARY MAGAZINE #7 will continue to push the boundaries of ballsy literature, mixing writers you know and love with new discoveries in the grit-lit genre. We could release a book every year, but we prefer to wait until it's just damn right. SK#7 is cooked perfectly... rare to blue with shots of whisky to wash it down with. The writers and artists in this issue are: --- Carson Mell --- Gene Gregorits --- Mark SaFranko --- Jon Terranova --- Steve Hussy --- Joel Williams --- Shea Hennum --- Mark Rogers --- Chris Rogers --- John Biggs --- Jonny Gibbings --- Joe Machine --- Oliver Pover. THE SAVAGE KICK #7 is ideal for fans of confessional and dark crime literature. Think Charles Bukowski, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and John Fante. Then throw in some Joe R. Lansdale and Jim Thompson. That potent recipe creates a book you won't be able to put down.

The Savage Kick #7

Hussy, Steve

"I had learnt that teachers are almost exclusively smug, phony left-wing, backstabbing, pseudo-intellectual, frequently stupid, hypocritical cunts. But I better explain all that. "And why you need to run, fucking run, from them." --- After quitting teaching in his late twenties, Steve Hussy became an editor of Murder Slim Press. He then became penniless due to be being screwed over by one of his co-editors. Forced back into teaching, he follows a series of rules to ensure that he keeps his job. . . whilst constantly watching and writing about the strange and often repellent hundred-plus teachers that he works with. For Hussy, his students are rarely the downside of the job. . . The true pitfall is the charmless, corporate face of modern education. --- Hussy's sparse, venomous writing - first in Steps and then in numerous literary magazines - has drawn comparisons to the darkest and most honest confessional writers.

Back

It's Birmingham, England in 1986 and Billy Zero has just walked out the hospital after trying to kill himself at the age of twentythree. Amid ceaseless drinking in seedy nightclubs, backstreet bars, drugfuelled parties and long, amphetamine charged nights punctured by his sense of demented loneliness, Billy Zero is sifting through the pieces of his broken life, compulsively searching for love and cheap thrills in an effort to assuage his feelings of alienation. With its frenetic and choppedup narrative, 'Black Cradle' backtracks the grotesque personal life of Billy and his freakshow of bored and bewildered friends fusing together the grim omens of his rootless childhood and the brutal events leading up to his suicide attempt.

Black Cradle

ray, u.v.

"'You're going to have to do something, Max. I can't handle it by myself anymore,' she said one morning over breakfast. 'Some of the bills are going unpaid. I didn't want to tell you last month, but. . .' "I knew what it meant -- I was going to have to come up with a job. A real job. To hell with writing, to hell with acting, to hell with my rich fantasy life of fat, regular royalty checks and reliable agents and all the other pleasant hallucinations of the artist manqué in America. "A simmering rage ate at me. Years of unrelenting work and I was back at square one. It was always the same old story. I was doomed. And I wasn't getting any younger." --- Max Zajack is in trouble. His writing career isn't taking off, and now he has a wife and a child to feed. To what extent can an artist survive the needs of a day-to-day existence? And to what excesses can frustrated ambition ultimately drive Max Zajack towards the abyss?

The Artistic Life

MARK SAFRANKO

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