Tim Murr Author

Me and you against the world, mother fu**er.

2008. Something was felt.

When you’re trying to finish writing your new book but you have a chaw waw…
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Richard Hell joins to speak about the reissue of his novel, "Godlike." The novel is steeped in the poetry of the New York School and captures the scene around St. Mark's Church that Hell came to know when he was just a teenager himself. An anti-nostalgic remembrance, the book reflects on aging, death, belief, and the power of the word to transform the detritus of the everyday into something holy and lasting.

Listen now on our site, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/richard-hells-godlike-podcast-interview/

I’ve been playing the hell out of the Lounge Lizards the last couple weeks. If you haven’t heard them, this band is a treasure.

The Lounge Lizards - John Zorn's S*M Circus The Lounge Lizards are a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophone player John Lurie.Initially a tongue in cheek "fake jazz" combo, drawing on punk rock and no ...

Dead Kids Don’t Ride Bikes turns two this summer. D&T is the first publisher I’ve worked with in my 30 years as an indie. Pretty cool to let someone else do some of the business stuff for me got a change.

It’s MEET the AUTHOR time!!

This is Tim Murr. We published his book, Dead Kids Don’t Ride Bikes.

Tim Murr is an author, editor, journalist, artist, and publisher. He founded St Rooster Books in 2010 with his wife, Stephanie, an artist in her own right, and has been working in indie publishing since 1996. He is the author of Summer’s Venomous Kiss, Texas is the Reason: Five Decades of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Whatever Happened to Spiderbaby Jane?, My Skull is Full of Black Smoke, Thirsty and Miserable: A Critical Analysis of the Music of Black Flag, Neon Sabbath, Motel on Fire, and The Gray Man. He has edited several anthologies through St Rooster Books, as well as the literary magazine Stranger With Friction. He has way too many cats and probably forgot to do something really important.

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Throw back to last summer when I appeared on my favorite podcast…