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Fiction. Music. DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS is a psychedelic romp through the Rio Grande Valley music scene. This collection of 10 punk rock fairy-tales offers a prismatic view of a subculture so rich that if it knew its own worth, it just might revolt against itself. This is the book you wish you had as a teenager, headphones on, waiting at a bus stop for a ride to the record store.

165 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2018

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Fernando A. Flores

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Fernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and raised in South Texas. He is a college dropout, avid film photographer, occasional screenwriter, and makes his living in Austin, Texas, doing all kinds of things.

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70 reviews8 followers
August 18, 2023
I don't think I'll ever read anything like this ever again. Effortlessly cool, beautifully written, surreal and punk as fuck.
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March 27, 2022
This is fucking hilarious. I was at AWP this weekend and walked past a cool ass looking publisher's booth. I wasn't familiar with Host Publications, but their covers were pretty badass so I stopped and gawked. I ended up buying this title because of its cover and because it sounded right up my alley.

Wanna piss yourself laughing?

I'm sitting here getting ready to log it into goodreads and I'm thinking to myself, damn, this title sounds soooo familar. And as I pull it up, I see the original cover and edition from CCLaP back in 2014. Would you fucking believe I did publicity on this title for the publisher back then? How the hell could I have forgotten!? That was back before I really knew what I was doing, and holy shit, what a flashback! So thrilled to see it out in the world in a new way with a new publisher!

The original printing: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Author 4 books109 followers
October 23, 2025
This collection contains the best fiction I've ever read on what it's like to be young and play in a rock & roll band. Particularly the lead story, "The House Band for the Hotel Cuerpo de la Paz." In general the stories occupy a beguiling nexus of plainspokenness and poetry, realism and fabulism, specificity to the Texas scene Flores chronicles, and universality to all artists everywhere. Looking forward to reading more from this author.
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182 reviews30 followers
December 31, 2019
This is the last book I read in 2019. It was a Christmas gift from my sister. A book of short stories, it started off so matter-of-fact that I thought I'd get bored by the end. On the contrary--Flores has written a series of stories about a bizarre series of artists--some self-aware, some highly instinctual, living and having adventures in the Rio Grande Valley. I want to know these people, drink with them, discuss music and books and performance art with them.
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110 reviews7 followers
June 30, 2023
love! a collection of (fictional? pretty sure..) stories about the south texas music scene — some irreverent, sad, hilarious, lonely, surreal, magical. i personally am a sucker for slice of life stories about specific characters and their little worlds so this was a perfect book for that. some of the longer stories dragged a bit at parts but that was really no match for how enjoyable i found everything else to be. punk is not dead🫡
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March 10, 2020
A friend posted that he got this book as a gift and loved it. I can see why. The stories about people being weird and creative without career and other constraints led these tales in odd but believable directions.
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January 24, 2025
Beautifully distills the essence of punk with an intimate mosaic of Texas and Texans.
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October 15, 2025
I do wish I could go to all these shows. I liked the surreality/punk bridges- I often forget about that nexus.

Bread8 forever!
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June 10, 2020
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Musica e narrativa hanno da sempre avuto una relazione particolare, o se non da sempre, almeno da quando la musica, sotto la sua forma più popolare, è diventata parte dello stesso immaginario da cui gli scrittori attingono per costruire le loro storie. Questo lo sa bene Jonathan Lethem, che non solo ha scritto pezzi di carattere musicale e un intero libro su un disco, ma ha anche usato la musica che ascolta e ama come ingrediente fondamentale in alcuni suoi romanzi: la rock band che aleggia sullo sfondo di You Don’t Love me Yet, l’ossessione con Prince del protagonista di Motherless Brooklyn, il soul e il rock degli anni settanta su The Fortress of Solitude. Non è l’unico a costruire un immaginario narrativo su esperienze musicali: Stone Arabia di Dana Spiotta nasce dal folk folle e iperprolifico di reclusi geniali come Jandek, Daniel Johnston, R. Stevie Moore, oltre che da dischi “fatti in casa” come Oar di Alexander Spence, McCartney I di Paul McCartney o Emmitt di Emitt Rhodes; Shotlung Lovesong di Nickloas Butler non esisterebbe senza Bon Iver né il recente Destroy All Monsters di Jeff Jackson senza i Destroy All Monsters e molto post-punk, sebbene venga usato in forma astratta, senza che nel libro venga citato nessun vero disco di nessun vero gruppo.

Ma esiste anche un percorso inverso che dalla narrativa va alla musica. Su Sister e Daydream Nation dei Sonic Youth ci sono pezzi ispirati da Williams Gibson, da Philip Dick e da Denis Johnson (apertamente citato su The Sprawl), i Velvet Underground hanno fatto pezzi ispirati da Hubert Selby Jr., oltre che dalla novella Venus in Furs di Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, e uno dei pezzi più belli e famosi di Kate Bush è espressamente una versione di Cime tempestose in formato canzone.

Tutto questo viene condensato e esemplificato nella novella “The Exit and Arrival of Beebee Kwaiczar” di Fernando Flores, dove il Beebee Kwaiczar del titolo ha iniziato a fare musica seguendo degli impulsi che gli sono arrivato dalla lettura dell’opera di fantascienza dello scrittore (fittizio) T. S. Cortada: prima di Cortada, Beebee vedeva la letteratura come “qualcosa di lento e esclusivamente bucolico,” ma dopo aver saggiato le potenzialità escapiste della fantascienza e generi limitrofi, ha visto chiaramente come anche la musica potesse e dovesse cercare una realtà aumentata non necessariamente plasmata sul quotidiano.

Quella novella fa parte di un intero libro, Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, che contiene dieci racconti—o favole, come vengono poi definiti in quarta di copertina— e tutti più o meno orbitano attorno a band più o meno fittizie della scena musicale più oscura e alternativa nella Rio Grande Valley nel Texas Meridionale, a ridosso del confine col Messico.

In realtà esiste una prima edizione del libro, pubblicata in una tiratura limitata a duecento copie col titolo leggermente diverso Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas Vol. 1 da CCLaP (ossia Chicago Center for Literature and Photography) nel 2014 e che conteneva sette dei dieci racconti presenti nella seconda edizione del libro per la texana Host Publication, che a quei sette aggiunge il già citato “The Exit and Arrival of Beebee Kwaiczar,” “The Eight Incarnation of Pascal’s Fifth,” già pubblicato come stand-alone sulla rivista Huizache, e “Black Alice/White Treemonisha,” ossia i tre racconti più complessi e che iniziano a dialogare con temi legati all’immigrazione, alle culture di confine, all’identità meticcia che poi Fernando Flores metterà al centro del suo primo romanzo, il pur convincente noir con elementi fantascientifici Tears of the Trufflepig (di quel libro ne parlo un po’ qui.)

L’idea di pubblicare una serie di racconti a metà tra la cronaca di una realtà sommersa e un bestiario surreale su dei reietti marginalizzati nasce dalle tante liste di band texane che si possono trovare in giro da quando esiste internet. In un’intervista per Texas Monthly, Fernando Flores nota come quella stessa rivista avesse da poco pubblicato una di quelle liste (qui: https://www.texasmonthly.com/list/the...) e avesse sentito il bisogno di una “lista alternativa,” una che contenesse “le grandi band underground del Texas che nessuno conosce”: questo è esattamente quello che ha fatto Fernando Flores l’anno precedente e si apprestava a ripubblicare tre anni dopo in una forma ampliata. Le band protagoniste dei racconti di Death to the Bullshi Artists of South Texas sono tutte finzionali, ma si può riconoscere l’attitudine punk e noise di Butthole Surfers o Millions of Death Cops dietro gli ERIKKLAPTON, e, per chi li conosce, non ci vuole molto a capire che i finzionali PInkbag siano in lì in rappresentanza dei reali gli Inkbag, così come i Crispon Glover Death Wish lo sono dei Charles Daniels Death Wish. Pare anche che proprio gli Inkbag, non esattamente adulati da come sono stati ritratteggiati come Pinbag, abbiano promesso vendette violente a Flores nel caso si fosse fatto vivo a uno dei loro concerti.

Ma i gruppi rock ai confini tra punk ultraoltranzista, estetica fieramente DIY e sperimentazioni che spingono il suono ai limiti dell’accessibile, servono soprattutto per dipingere e tratteggiare più che un’estetica un’etica del confine, del migrante diventato emigrato, di chi vive nella nuova frontiera americana, che da ovest si è spostata per certi versi a sud, di chi ha il problema non di dover definire e adeguare la propria identità in un tessuto sociale che non si può controllare, ma di dover amalgamare e far convivere due diverse identità in un tessuto sociale meticcio e caotico, e con quelle due diverse storie, quella del paese dei genitori e quella del paese nel quale si trovano a vivere, fino a rendersi tragicamente conto che avere due identità può significare non averne nessuna.

I protagonisti sono anti-eroi, tutti in cerca di un mondo di esprimersi, come l’adolescente balbuziente e bullizzato che trova un modo di esprimersi solo urlando e strepitando in un gruppo hardcore su “The Lead Singer of the Short-Lived Unknown Band ERIKKLAPTON,” o come Liliana Krauze protagonista di “The Performance of Lilian Krauze,” che cerca di dare voce nella e con la sua musica sperimentale, bellissima quanto brutale, alla “sensazione di osservare e non essere capace di capire ciò che sta accadendo.”

Così i membri della band del primo racconto, “The House Band for the Hotel Corpo de la Paz,” è una band che non ha propriamente un nome, i cui membri vengono presentati non per nome ma per una loro caratteristica familiare: Il Figlio dalla Madre Single alla chitarra solista, Il Figlio del Meccanico a quella ritmica, Il Figlio del Pubblico Ministero al basso e il Figlio dell’Agente di Custodia alla batteria. Nessuno ha un nome e nessuno ha un’identità, non cercano l’approvazione di nessuno, finché uno dei membri del gruppo non “lasciò entrare dentro la luce del mondo esterno,” e i quattro ribelli smettono di cercare un’identità e finiscono “come scienziati soddisfatti di aver preso parte a un esperimento e di aver in qualche modo dimostrato qualcosa all’umanità,” anche se questo qualcosa resterà nascosto con loro.

La stessa ricerca di identità immune da ogni compromesso è palpabile nei Legalize Wino, ossia i protagonisti (fittizi) del racconto “The First Ever Punk Band in the World (Out of Raymondville),” cioè una punk band che come tutte le punk band che si rispettino vuole essere la prima vera punk band del mondo nella convinzione che tutte le altre punk band non siano in realtà punk, e che il punk era “qualcos’altro, anche se poi “quando gli chiedevano cosa fosse questo qualcos’altro non sapevano mai cosa rispondere.” E in piena e perfetta sintonia punk, passeranno nel tempo e verranno ricordati come una leggenda nascosta chissà dove.

Sperimentalismo quindi: caratteristica comune a tutti i racconti c’è una tappezzeria fatta di storie, narrativa, vita vissuta, tenuta insieme dalla musica come elemento espressivo dominante, l’unico capace di rompere i codici in modo più feroce e efficace, e forse anche quello a cui il pubblico, abituato all’ordinarietà, ha la reazione più ostile e rigida. È la doppia contraddizione: artisti che cercano la rottura ma vogliono restare all’interno di un codice riconosciuto, e pubblico che vuole originalità ma nei limiti dell’ordinario abitudinario. Contraddizione che viene rotta da chi cerca “qualcosa di più di una hit per le radio” nelle esternazioni psichedeliche e oltremondane di artisti che vivono ai margini, artisti che “critica e pubblico descrivevano come talentuosi, impegnativi, ma profondamente inascoltabili.” Inascoltabilità che qui, in questi racconti, si traduce nel tentativo di raccontare una realtà che pochi vedono e della quale, probabilmente, non resterà traccia alcuna.

Il punk è musica che nasce per essere suonata dal vivo e ascoltata dal vivo, come le sperimentazioni elettroniche e avant-garde spesso assumono l’aspetto di vere e proprie “installazioni” da cogliere nel momento, tutto questo vive in ambienti labili a alta volatilità, dove niente può la “riproducibilità tecnica” invocata da Walter Benjamin. Quella musica sperimentale assume quindi le stesse caratteristiche dei miti tramandati oralmente, delle leggende che si perdono in tradizioni morenti, tracce tribali cancellate dal tempo e dall’entropia. Questo rafforza il carattere “favolistico” dichiarato in quarta di copertina, carattere che si fa mano a mano evidente, e prende il sopravvento forse nei racconti aggiunti nella seconda edizione, soprattutto “Black Alice/White Treemonisha” e “The Eight Incarnations of Pascal’s Fifth,” che diventano più surreali, fanno largo uso di tecniche vicine al realismo magico, senza scivolare in quei cliché, e si avvicinano ai maestri della narrativa sudamericana come Borges e Bolaño. Dead to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas non è solo una raccolta di racconti: è anche una raccolta di stili e modi di scrivere racconti, si va dal cinematico, al racconto di formazione, al post-moderno al surreale. Diversi stili ma con una voce distinta, una voce che cerca di dare voce a un mondo che nella sua transitorietà resterà vocazionalmente sepolto nelle piaghe della storia.
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300 reviews7 followers
November 5, 2019
Flores’ writing is playful, sparse and raw, the characters rich and detailed, with the stories seeming to trap just a moment of their wider lives, while the music vibrates off the pages. I loved the subtle nods to real bands almost as much as I loved the names of the fictional musicians and groups.
To list my favourite stories would do the collection disservice, (but they’re definitely ‘The House Band for the Hotel Cuerpo de la Paz’ and ‘The Exit and Arrival of Beebee Kwaiczar) Honestly, one of my favourite books this year.
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314 reviews12 followers
May 5, 2019
This is an amazing book that really captures my home, south texas, the valley. It is all about musicians, or more generally, artists, and because of that, it really resonated with me. Fernando Flores really did the damn thing! He captured what it's like growing up and playing music there. I enjoyed all the short stories. I can't wait to read more from him.
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564 reviews4 followers
January 12, 2023
Institutional centers of learning can teach you craft but they can't teach you heart, they can't teach you inborn energy. Just like with the fictional homemade punk CD-Rs this book ardently chisels in the stone annals of history, the frequent absence of polish in the sentences is easily overlooked in favor of the abundant passion and electricity, the snarls of the forgotten and oppressed, the sheer levitational power of creating something new. The first story in here - "The House Band at the Hotel Cuerpo de la Paz" - is one of the best short stories I have ever read. Beautiful Texas literature.
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68 reviews
November 23, 2023
I tore through this, the stories are so evocative and sweet and sad and funny.
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42 reviews
October 21, 2025
I really enjoyed these short stories about South Texas bands that never were but could have been, and definitely were, at least for a few minutes, in my mind. These stories, while largely set in South Texas, reminded me of my youth in Austin, TX amidst the live music venues and local bar scene. The afterword by the author said people who read this book go on to start a band, so I think that means it's time for me to find a bassist, lead guitar, drummer, keyboardist and some back-up singers!
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33 reviews
January 24, 2022
When I was in a band, my local punk and metal underground scene had long waned out. Shows were scarce, and whenever we got the chance to play one, more often than not it'd only be our friends and about a dozen other people in the audience. Still, that shared energy that erupted once the first chords were struck is unparalleled. It's always been, for me, both as concertgoer and as performer. We were fortunate enough to play a few shows for about two hundred people while opening for more established bands, and for me it was heaven. Whether we played well or badly, it didn't matter. It was commitment. When you get up on that stage, that feeling of brotherhood is a deep, piercing feeling.

It was a fleeting experience. Most local bands stay local bands and that's just the way it goes - strangely enough, I wouldn't have it any other way. Reading these short stories reminded me a lot of those times, the band practices spent talking shit about whatever subject came on, the mischief that ensued when we decided to play football indoors in neat and tidy backstage rooms, the cringey jokes spout at the microphone in between songs at live shows.

It doesn't matter if people remember it or not, as long as I do, much like the artists depicted in 'Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas'. To read these short stories was to swim in a pool of nostalgia, where the water's temperature is comfortable enough to linger still, almost aimlessly, just floating.

That being said, I'll always curse myself for not being born earlier. To grow up in that underground scene must've been something.
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5 reviews
November 29, 2018
A very elegant collection of short stories about youth, small town life, and punk rock. In an odd way, it captured some of the same feeling of the film The Last Picture Show. I look forward to his novel.
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52 reviews2 followers
May 7, 2025
A few months ago I went to a recently opened indie bookstore called Alienated Majesty, close to the University of Texas campus. It’s a cute place with all kinds of cool stuff you might not find in a larger, corporate chain. The staff was helpful, and when I went to pay, the guy at the register confirmed that one of my selections, Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores was, indeed, a banger. Flores is a local writer I’d not yet read, and I was excited to jump in.

Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas is not a long book, but it took me quite a while to finish it, and that’s because whenever I really, really like a book, I find myself slowing down. (This is opposite of most people I know who get obsessed with the books they like and race through them.) I was immediately captured – mesmerized, even – by these short fictions described on the back cover as “10 punk rock fairy-tales” that take place in the Rio Grande Valley (where Texas meets Mexico at it’s southernmost point). The stories are strange and, at times, discomforting. They move in and out of the surreal with ease, carrying us along on wave after wave of the unexpected grace and vivid aspiration for being understood that flows through the blood of artists.

Each story feel like a dream. In fact, one of the stories – “The Performances of Liliana Krauze” – gave me such a powerful, painful dream that I simply had to put this book (and all other books) down for a week to recover. Not because the story itself was tragic, but because it called up ways of being I’d suppressed for decades, and reminded me of a time when I wasn’t afraid to put myself out there artistically (and otherwise), even when it made no sense to other people.

Flores’ style is highly aesthetic, but unaffected. He writes viscerally about artistic people with complex lives and relationships, but does so in a way that pulls our own creative power from deep within the psyche and unplugs the reservoirs of complicated, beautifully painful, and whimsically honest feelings that we’ve done our best to forget.

I’m in love with this book. I recommend it highly. I didn’t realize how much I needed it until it was in my hands.
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10 reviews
July 28, 2024
Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas is not a large book, but it took me quite a while to finish it, and that’s because whenever I really, really like a book, I find myself slowing down. (This is opposite of most people I know who get obsessed with the books they like and race through them.) I was immediately captured – mesmerized, even – by these short fictions described on the back cover as “10 punk rock fairy-tales” that take place in the Rio Grande Valley (where Texas meets Mexico at it’s southernmost point). The stories are strange and, at times, discomforting. They move in and out of the surreal with ease, carrying us along on wave after wave of the unexpected grace and vivid aspiration for being understood that flows through the blood of artists.

Each story feel like a dream. In fact, one of the stories – “The Performances of Liliana Krauze” – gave me such a powerful, painful dream that I simply had to put this book (and all other books) down for a week to recover. Not because the story itself was tragic, but because it called up ways of being I’d suppressed for decades, and reminded me of a time when I wasn’t afraid to put myself out there artistically (and otherwise), even when it made no sense to other people.

Flores’ style is highly aesthetic, but unaffected. He writes viscerally about artistic people with complex lives and relationships, but does so in a way that pulls our own creative power from deep within the psyche and unplugs the reservoirs of complicated, beautifully painful, and whimsically honest feelings that we’ve done our best to forget.

I’m in love with this book. I recommend it highly. I didn’t realize how much I needed it until it was in my hands.
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76 reviews
January 16, 2022
This is a front-heavy collection of fictional stories inspired from the punk scene in South Texas. Front-heavy in the sense that I generally liked the stories on the first half and didn't end up caring as much for the rest of them - they were just okay.

The central themes revolve around the experience of being migrants to a new place, discovering ways of expression, and of course, the explosive and short-lived punk spirit that gets so vividly reincarnated through different people and described throughout each story. The realistic backdrop makes the stories read like alternative historical fiction.

My three favorite pieces were:

Pinbag - This story embodies the short-lived punk experience with character portraits that read like they took 20 pages to develop but Flores does it in a span of 8 pages - incredible.

Bread8 - It’s a compelling tale of the youthful tenacity of punks vs. the establishment politician, and the way it ended was powerful - I don’t want to spoil it but it moved me.

The Performances of Liliana Krauze - a tight, focused narrative following a woman who has trouble expressing art in her own way, and in another way, it’s a journey of self-realization and self-actualization. Her final performance at the bookstore was fulfilling, Flores’ description of ambient field recordings is compelling, to say the least.

7/10
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22 reviews2 followers
August 9, 2021
Beautiful and sad, these wayward short stories are almost prose poetry at times.
The conceit of the book, that everything revolves around bands and musicians from Latino backgrounds, is a delightful springboard for Flores' vivid imagination.

Like Latin American fiction, there's a painful inevitability to these stories, the eventual fall of these characters. You don't read the book empathizing with them, but viewing them as a part of the overarching tableau. This Brechtian tactic makes the reader less attentive to emotion and more attentive to politics and social interaction, which is a nice counterpoint.

These fictional bands and songs ring incredibly true to any fan of either. Not always perfect, sometimes beautifully imperfect, Flores' sketches of dirty gig culture and DIY punk comes from a place of loving satire.
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125 reviews4 followers
January 20, 2022
So we've just spent time in a world where the border wall is actually constructed on time, but the security is lax enough to hold a show in its shadow. That's as fitting a denouement as any for this book, as it implies other possibilities in that world, especially the ones Mr. Flores speaks about in his last sentence, a better one than I could ever hope to write.

This is the kind of book I should go back over with pencil and another sheet of paper, big enough to draw little bubbles for each character and lines for their relationships (Come to think of it, crayons would be a good tool to do different color lines). There may be one too many lists, but the only way to be sure is to diagram their contents as well.
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Author 10 books17 followers
October 5, 2020
A love letter to music and his South Texas home in the form of loosely related short stories by the criminally underrated Fernando A. Flores. I truly loved this book, the characters pop off the page and are all stars of their own vignettes, no matter how fleeting. And like his novel, "Tears of the Trufflepig," he brings the borderland of Texas to vivid life, not portraying it as some kind of war zone or hyperbolic metaphor as is not uncommon. A joyous, wild and weird ride from a joyous, wild and weird mind. Highly recommended!

I listened to Tashi Dorji's new record Stateless, The Durutti Column and the Earth album Hex while reading this one.
Profile Image for Bob Comparda.
296 reviews13 followers
March 16, 2022
Probably the greatest stories I've read about music and playing in bands. The prose flowed so well and was very poetic, at times feeling like a dream. Mostly stories about punk bands, however some involved other genres. "Bread8" was one of the best short stories I've ever read, about a punk band that gets mixed up in the upcoming elections for mayor. If you like fiction about playing in bands then get this book!!
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Author 2 books25 followers
August 7, 2019
Another short story collection. I enjoyed this quite a bit. I tended to lean into the author's shorter stories and found they offered me a vibrant picture into the arts scene of South Texas. Some of the longer stories at times felt redundant or the plot lost my interest. Overall, this book is different than anything I've ever read and definitely worth reading!
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114 reviews
November 15, 2022
Mockumentarial accounts of pretend bands in Texas. Short stories, but dense with names and details. My favorite stories were -

The Performances of Liliana Krauze - stories of a DIY sound artist in Montreal
Bread8 - the punk band with a subversive political compaign performance

2 reviews
August 1, 2023
An amazing book full of almost non-fictional slices of life that touch on themes ranging from youth rebellion to existential questioning, mortality, and the human condition. A short read but very worthwhile.
82 reviews
October 9, 2024
I loved all the stories. I loved piecing together who he was really referencing. Copel Brandt wasn't difficult. Now I need to go watch "As I Walk Through the Valley" to put faces with the rhyming names that I wasn't familiar with. There are so many beautiful passages written throughout this book.
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