Massive Pissed Love: Nonfiction 2001-2014 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593766276)

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.

Author: Richard Hell
ISBN-10: 1593766270
ISBN-13: 9781593766276
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2015 pg. 110