Massive Pissed Love: Nonfiction 2001-2014

By Richard Hell

Book Overview

A seminal collection of ruminations on art, books, and music by one of the sharpest minds and sensibilities in both punk rock and literature.

Richard Hell may best be known as a punk icon, a founding member of seminal bands Television, the Heartbreakers, and The Voidoids, but for decades he's been a prominent voice in American letters. Through his novels Go Now and Godlike, and his critically acclaimed autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, Hell has proven himself as a talented and insightful writer across many genres, in many forms. But one might argue that Richard's true genius lies in shorter form as a writer on culture. "Love comes in spurts," Hell once sang, and that could well describe the intensity of his penetrating and wickedly droll criticism.

Massive Pissed Love is a collection of Hell's ruminations on art, literature, and music, among other things, that's like a candy box of reading treats, a bag of shiny marbles, a cabinet of mementos and uncanny fetishes. However one thinks of it, it's a joy to read from start to finish and a deeply necessary addition to the oeuvre of one of the sharpest minds and sensibilities at work today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593766270
• ISBN13: 9781593766276
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"