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Oh, and I took a pass on Tree of Smoke, I've just been re-reading the living shit out of Jesus' Son. I'm working through stuff I bought ages ago, including The Confidence Man by Melville and Chabon's The Final Solution, then I think my next purchase is going to be Johnathan Shaw's first novel, reading his stuff here has got me into him.

His work reminds me of Dee Dee Ramone's Chelsea Horror Hotel, which I'm going to go ahead and assume you've read. Any suggestions for other authors like Shaw/Ramone?

Going out of town for business or pleasure?

For a minute I was sure you were saying you hadn't read either Chabon or Melville, but I'm just hungover.

Dee Dee's stuff is okay, pretty raw, much like his music, but he's got a good voice, and coming at it from a place of inexperience he's not afraid to fuck around and have fun, which is a nice change of pace from reading all those professional writers who learned a bunch of big words in college and don't write like people actually talk or think or act.

J. Shaw's stuff seems decent, but I'm just going by his blog: scabvendor.com

He actually reminds me of Pedro Juan Guitterez, have you ever read his stuff?