{"id":32990,"date":"2023-05-31T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32990"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:52:08","slug":"lush-and-other-tales-of-boozy-mayehm-by-duane-swierczynski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32990","title":{"rendered":"LUSH AND OTHER TALES OF BOOZY MAYEHM by Duane Swierczynski!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42eS3tY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z053123lush_ds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lush and other tales of Boozy Mayhem<\/strong> by Duane Swierczynski just came out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Swierczynski&#8217;s first book of short stories.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you the first collection of short stories from Duane Swierczynski!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you\u2019re in the mood for mayhem, you\u2019ve come to the right place, pal. Cozy up to the bar and let Duane Swierczynski spin you a yarn. I\u2019ll warn ya, though; these eighteen tales aren\u2019t for the faint of heart. You\u2019ll find crime, science fiction and plenty of horror in these pages . . . and rest assured, he isn\u2019t afraid to serve up the hard stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Duane notes in his introduction: \u201cStories have always been an escape for me, just like a couple of stiff drinks at the end of the day. Both are methods of altering your personal reality, even just for a little while.\u201d We invite you to escape into Duane\u2019s wild world of high-octane (and high-proof) short fiction, where you\u2019ll experience . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A journalist landing an interview with Philadelphia\u2019s last hardboiled P.I., the hunt for a pulp writer\u2019s lost manuscript, the downside of finding out that death isn\u2019t the end, the dangers of ignoring a Polish death curse, a new twist on serving time for crimes committed, a cross-country trek under the watchful eye of a killer, a particularly dangerous film print, lawbreakers in a future where technology has tamed the L.A. freeway system, and a whole lot more . . .<\/p>\n<p>Gird your brain and your liver . . . it\u2019s time for <strong>Lush and Other Tales of Boozy Mayhem.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this sounds like something you&#8217;d like, you know what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lush and other tales of Boozy Mayhem by Duane Swierczynski just came out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Swierczynski&#8217;s first book of short stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34187,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990\/revisions\/34187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}