Here’s a new book about what life is like in the cultural underground. How indy artists/musicians/writers/filmmakers get by, make a living, do what they do—in a culture that wants lousy stuff and wants to be left alone, everyone in their own niche.
It’s edited by Jack Saunders (America’s greatest living unpublished or underpublished writer).
It’s a collection of reports by a wide variety of artists and writers.
He included an embarrassingly long chunk by me.
Click on the link way below to go to the publisher’s webpage for this book. Or just use this URL: www.pottersvillepress.com/postcardv3.htm
The publisher is a small press who produces quite a bit of work about the nitty gritty of North Florida culture, including a recent mystery called “North Florida Noir.” FYI, the Panhandle is the focus point in the USA today of gigantic forces in battle—the gated-community condo-izers versus the locals, the beaches, nature, the little old fishing towns.
“Adventures in the Underground” reminds me of a book by Mickey Z, called “The Murdering of My Years,” which is about how artists make a living—half the contributors report on how they sell their art to survive, the other half write about what it’s like to be an artist and not be able to sell enough art to survive so you have to work a job to pay the bills. The title of the book comes from a Bukowski poem—he considered the years that he worked at jobs like the post office before he was able to live by his vocation to have been “the murdering of my years.”
Here’s the URL for Mickey’s book:
www.amazon.com/Murdering-My-Years-Artists-Activists/dp/1887128786/jeffpottersoutyoA/
(The link below will take you to Jack’s book.)
https://www.pottersvillepress.com/postcardv3.htm
