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Jeff Johnson
Goodreads Author
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in The United States
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Joe R. Lansdale, James Crumley, Ace Atkins, China Mieville, Elmore Leo
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July 2016
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Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
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2009
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10 editions
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Lucky Supreme (Darby Holland #1)
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2017
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11 editions
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Everything Under the Moon
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2016
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2 editions
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A Long Crazy Burn (Darby Holland #2)
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2017
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Deadbomb Bingo Ray
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The Animals After Midnight (Darby Holland #3)
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Knottspeed
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I Shop at Laney's
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Munez
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I Shop At Laney’s, a strange novella by Jeff Johnson, on sale now for the holiday season
I haven’t had this much fun reading anything since I read True Grit years back. It’s an utterly original book with a wild strange plot made plausible by voice and setting details and exceptional writing. Overnight I find that I’m a Jeff Johnson fan. -World Fantasy Award Winner JAMES P. BLAYLOCK
“…lowdown drunken partners on the realistic poverty road, what seems like fantasy for most of the story,
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"Jeff Johnson is the best master of noir that you've likely never heard of.
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"Never having read a title by Jeff Johnson, I didn’t know what to expect. This book was all heart mixed with a doozy of a plot, I was highly entertained and can’t wait to explore Jeff’s future stories. So much fun!"
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“Tramp stamp. A tattoo in the center of a woman's lower back. Also referred to as a "California bumper sticker." The germans refer to this as "arschgeweih," which translates as "ass antler." Bravo!”
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
“Crazy people can add character to a place. If the ambience in your bar is off, or your lobby has gone inexplicably stale, consider picking up a lunatic. They're not hard to come by, and the often work for free. A lot of tattoo shops have one. Larger places might find it handy to keep two or three around.”
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“Some flavor of all of this would have remained undiscovered to me. If you try to observe the world for long enough through the perfect lens, then one day it will surely settle permanently into place, and then every object is a still life. You live in the moments between blinks.”
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
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“Tramp stamp. A tattoo in the center of a woman's lower back. Also referred to as a "California bumper sticker." The germans refer to this as "arschgeweih," which translates as "ass antler." Bravo!”
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
― Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
“Crazy people can add character to a place. If the ambience in your bar is off, or your lobby has gone inexplicably stale, consider picking up a lunatic. They're not hard to come by, and the often work for free. A lot of tattoo shops have one. Larger places might find it handy to keep two or three around.”
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“The fruit of great love is a smiling baby, delighted to be born wise. The product of loneliness and desperation and midnight lust is me and you, dear reader’. -Steppy Sharang, the romance writer from the novel Grand Estuary Grand”
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