Narcisa left me feeling the sting of a brass-knuckled hook to the jaw. The pain comes on like a storm. But masterfully. At the precise point I can’t bear any more, it tackles me with a beautiful kiss. It’s a winderful feeling of pain and beauty that screams and sings to me at the same […]
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Reading NARCISA: OUR LADY OF ASHES is like sliding into the world your parents warned you about. Jonathan Shaw‘s had his knife on the pulse of the underworld for over thirty years. Now he’s cut it open, for all to taste the filth. Wanna be thrown against a brick wall of words? Crack this book… […]
read moreAn authentic and colorful novel like NARCISA can only be produced by an individual who has experienced an authentic and colorful existence. Few have dipped so deeply or functioned so extensively in the cultural underbelly of our world than the notorious artist and adventurer, Jonathan Shaw. In this literary firmament he is a virtuoso. – […]
read moreThanks to a Godfather of high-end lowbrow, Joe Coleman, for your blurb.”A writer of immense passion and soul, a true survivor who has painstakingly documented an archtypal descent into the various hells of this festering disease of a planet, Jonathan Shaw has the courage to vivisect his own soul. And what pours out is a […]
read moreIn 1980 I lived in Stockholm, Sweden with Arab refugees from Afghanistan, Palestine and Syria…. my favorite books were Papillon and the stories of Fanny Hill in Finnish. I only knew Finnish. One day somebody gave me Kerouac’s On The Road and Junky by Burroughs in English and I started to learn that curious language… […]
read moreI decided to post this week’s weekly blurb with a little bit of history. Underneath the blurb you will see an excerpt from Jonathan’s other memoir Scabvendor, which might give a little insight on their relationship… “Jonathan Shaw is a fucked-off hunk of shit. A fish asshole cunt-sucker!” – Charles Bukowski (1978) A NIGHT WITH […]
read more“Jonathan Shaw is the great nightmare Antihero of the new age.” -Iggy Pop
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