John Bennett

John Bennett is a legend in the alternative press. He came on the scene in the Sixties with his novel The Adventures of Achilles Jones and the founding of Vagabond Press in Munich, Germany. He has received high praise from authors as diverse as Saul Bellow, Charles Bukowski and Tom Robbins. Bellow said: "I knew there had to be a human way to write about these subjects. I think you've hit upon it." Bukowski said: "You've fought a harder, cleaner fight than anybody I know." Robbins said: Bennett is the real thing. His voice is honest and smart and a little wild. I highly recommend him."

Al Martinez of the L.A. Times said: "It's some of the best stuff I've read in a long, long time, and I've been reading forever."

The poet Lynne Savitt said: "Sometimes you hit it so hard and so right, it's almost like sex.

Bennett is the author of many novels, short story collection and books of poetry, and in the mid Nineties he evolved a new form he calls Shards, essentially prose with a poetic hard drive anchored in a mindset that is all his own.

Find out more about his books, including chapbooks and audio books and short films not listed here, go to: hcolompress.com.