Fiction. THE BUS is a novel in the tradition of Miller, Kerouac and Whitman, a personal history set in Los Angeles, a lyrical journey down Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards as the narrator travels through as many worlds as streets, from Echo Park to the ocean, to pick up his car from the auto mechanic. "Abee is the love-powered bullhorn blasting down from the altitudes"—Beck "A literary seer who speaks the language of billboards and boulevards, Steve Abee elevates the experience of our neighborhoods to soliloquies laced with the celebratory bitter tongue of city life. On our streets we hear the sound of words dying, but in the house of Abee they land in a heart rich with the blood of langauge."—Luis Alfaro "Steve Abee is the Walt Whitman of up-from-the-gutter contempo poetry, the Kerouac of every corner you've ever slimed by without listening to the music of word-drunk skeeks and beautiful mutants with matted hair. THE BUS is a naked celebration of love for the damaged, and damaged love—the gritty yin and savage yang of the real Los Angeles."—Jerry Stahl "Relentless prose that demands the reader to devour passage after passage, only to be left soul seared and simultaneously re-invigorated."—Lydia Lunch "In pursuit of prophetic agency, Steve Abee grabs at each thought as it is presented to him, and squeezes it until it glows like a cultured pearl."—Lewis MacAdams "Abee brings light to the unlit donut stores of consciousness. His complex imagery conveys the many windows of the everyday."—Danny Weizmann

The Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in Transit

Literature & Fiction

Abee, Steve

Contemporary

Phony Lid Books

Piltdownlad #6 features the “Institutionalized” story cycle, an exploration of abuse told from the perspectives of four participants. Interspersed among the narrative are actual court records from the trial, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, photos and other miscellany. A true story. Not for the fainthearted or the hardhearted.  “A powerful, humanizing work.” – Broken Pencil  “This powerful zine demonstrates what it means to create space… shape shifting and, at times, completely absurd.” – Maximum Rocknroll   “You can’t get much more real than this. A brave zine…” – Craven Rock  “…essential reading.” – One Minute Zine Reviews

Institutionalized: A Piltdownlad Zine

Biographies & Memoirs

Dessaint, Kelly

Memoirs

Behind the Wheel was created by longtime zine maker Kelly Dessaint to document his experiences driving for hire in San Francisco. The first two issues chronicle driving for Lyft, then Uber, before going to taxi school and becoming a bonafide taxi driver, documented in the third installment, which contains the unexpurgated "I Drive SF," based on his weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner. The fourth issues features five long-form essays about driving a taxi in San Francisco while living in Oakland, writing for a newspaper, dealing with a complicated marriage, hostile encounters with Uber/Lyft drivers and the prospect of bringing a child into a world that's already completely out of whack... All four issues combined, with dozens and dozens of new content, this collection presents a vivid, almost voyeuristic, tapestry of The City from behind the wheel. San Francisco is a constant backdrop through the stories - essentially the main star - followed closely by the author himself. Of course.

Dispatches from Behind the Wheel: The Omnibus: The Complete Zine Series about Driving for Hire in San Francisco

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

"Peter Case is an american folk hero. In a back catalog of over a dozen releases Peter Case has shown he has the musical goods to be mentioned in the same breath as Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk, Liam Clancy, and any of a host of stellar American folk voices. Case has the original songs, the singing voice, the road experience, and the cultural/political savvy to put these components all together in one package..." - Sid Griffin, author, Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes"The best of Peter Case's songs suck you in to their own little worlds so deftly that you shiver with the final chord, like shaking awake from a dream. You've been there, inside, seeing what he's been seeing..." - Peter Wrench, Eden On The Line"Peter Case doesn't write like a lyricist looking for the clever hook line, he writes like a writer who knows how to make words shine and feelings resonate, so when he describes his town, or an incident at night, or being on the street, you know exactly what he's talking about." - Peter Stone Brown, Counterpunch

Somebody Told the Truth: Selected Lyrics and Stories

Case, Peter

Arts & Literature

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