EUGENE S. ROBINSON RELEASES ‘A WALK ACROSS DIRTY WATER’ VIA FERAL HOUSE
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| ‘A Walk Across Dirty Water And Straight Into Murderer’s Row’, the new memoirs of Eugene S. Robinson are available now worldwide. |
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| A rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musicianEugene S. Robinson that takes readers along for the ride of their lives |
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| “Most writing, non-fiction included, buffers the writer from consequence with some kind of bullshit. The writer’s voice keeps you at a distance with writerly devices, wordplay, echoes of received style or import. I have the luxury of knowing Eugene apart from his writing, and I am certain he is not bullshitting you.” – Steve Albini |
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| “In the lineage of kids crashing through the chaos of 1970s New York City finding a voice in punk music and radical literature Eugene is like a possessed sprinter racing past the finish line into the unknown, the entire universe both at his heels and in his heart. The man is a brilliant sun shower of inspired energy spraying the room. We can only wallow in the anointment.” – Thurston Moore, London 2022 |
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| “A weird rollicking ride” frames how author Eugene S. Robinson views his journey from a Brooklyn kid with decidedly offbeat punk rock proclivities to the realities of California hardcore and dark detours into shows, tours, drugs, porn, guns, MMA fighting, an Ivy League-esque education and his eventual entry into the US Defense industry just in time to see his boss dragged into Contragate. |
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| Robinson’s writing mirrors his fighting style: intensity, ferocity, and brutal truth. He knows exactly who he is and how he is perceived by the white people and white culture that surrounds him. Robinson challenges accepted norms. He fights against easy answers and safe passages. He says: “No one who ever gets a life sentence for just about anything really expects it to last a lifetime. Even if the modifier is ‘without the possibility of parole.’ Hope springs eternal but there’s always the undiscussed other option. The one where the fate is chosen, freely, and the protagonist has about as much interest in escaping as he does of being almost anywhere else at all. Which is to say: not at all.” |
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| A Walk Across Dirty Water And Straight Into Murder’s Row includes personal forewords by Lydia Lunch and Harley Flanagan, and brief afterwords by Steve Albini and Jimi Izrael. Order the book now via Amazon Worldwide or directly from Feral House. |
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| Photo courtesy of Kasia Robinson. |
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| ABOUT the AUTHOR: Eugene S Robinson has written for GQ, The Wire, Grappling Magazine, LA Weekly, Vice Magazine, Hustler, and Decibel, among many others. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of OZY, Code and EQ. The 6’1″, 235-pound Robinson has worked in magazine publishing, film, and television. Robinson is the vocalist and front man for Oxbow, a rock group-cum-fight club. He is also the vocalist for the critically acclaimed punk-metal supergroup, Buñuel. He lives in the San Francisco area. |
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