Three new books to announce via Cosmic Monolith Publishing and they’re all available on Amazon
Book #1:
‘Rogues Gallery: Beyond The Hotel Clifton’
‘Rogues Gallery: Beyond The Hotel Clifton’ feels like a classic gangster flick starring George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, or Humphrey Bogart. Moore introduces us a to a “rogues gallery” of outlaws and bad men, hustlers and hobos, who hung around the Hotel Clifton, the riverbanks of the mighty Pecatonica river, and the seedy dive bars of Freeport, IL during the gritty, tough guy era of the 1940’s. Their stories are written in the ink of their blood and the whiskey they drank, told through Moore’s stark, hard-hitting style of prose.
‘Rogues Gallery: Beyond The Hotel Clifton’ is the unofficial volume II of ‘Gangsters, Harlots & Thieves: Good Times, Bad Times At The Hotel Clifton.’
Book #2:
‘Gangsters, Harlots & Thieves: Good Times, Bad Times At The Hotel Clifton.’
Book Synopsis:
‘Gangsters, Harlots & Thieves: Good Times, Bad Times At The Hotel Clifton‘ is an updated version of ‘Gangsters, Harlots & Thieves: Down And Out At The Hotel Clifton’ expanded to 338 pages with recently found poetry and essays adding more depth and texture to the outlaw world small press writer Todd Moore grew up in.
‘Gangsters, Harlots & Thieves: Good Times, Bad Times At The Hotel Clifton’ paints a stark, sometimes difficult picture of what it was like growing up in and around the skid row environs of the infamous Clifton Hotel in the bare knuckled 1940’s and ’50’s of small-town America told by Moore himself through his unique film noir style of writing through essays and poetry.
Todd Moore was born and raised in Freeport Illinois. He wrote and published well over a hundred books of poetry and prose dating back to the 1970’s, much of it released through his own small press, “road/house.” He was also a primary co-founder of the literary movement known as “Outlaw Poetry.”
Moore is best remembered for writing and publishing books about outlaw John Dillinger from 1978 up until his death in 2010, numbering well over a thousand plus pages in length. He is survived by wife Barbara, sons Theron, and Jason, and two grandchildren, Emma, and Jake.
book #3
‘Through The Lens Of road/house Press’
‘Through The Lens Of roadhouse Press’ looks at poet Todd Moore’s semi famous small press “roadhouse” which published poetry by a who’s who of famous writers including – but not limited to – Albert Goldbarth, Gerald Locklin, Lyn Lifshin, Michael C. Ford, Ann Menebroker, and Thomas McGrath.
In addition, it presents a fly on the wall perspective of the small press revolution / literary movement of the 1970’s and 1980’s as told by eight writers who were not only published by road/house press but lived the experience firsthand:
Todd Moore, Tom Montag, Dennis Gulling, illustrator Bruce Quast, Wayne Dundee (‘Hardboiled’ Magazine), Kurt Nimmo, Pat Mckinnon, Ron Androla, Tom House, Alan Catlin, and Ann Menebroker.
These are their stories, their insights, and their experiences. ‘Through The Lens Of roadhouse Press’ is a snapshot of literary history not found in any textbook, anywhere. Underground. Independent. Counterculture.
