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

"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