Novels about the blue-collar world are rare: Seldom does someone near the cellar of society escape to tell the tale. Eric Miles Williamson joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news. "Two-Up" is Williamson's fictional account of a journey through the nightmare of the American labor inferno.

Novels about the blue-collar world are rare: Seldom does someone near the cellar of society escape to tell the tale. Eric Miles Williamson joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news. "Two-Up" is Williamson's fictional account of a journey through the nightmare of the American labor inferno.

Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation. There is no other book that resembles "Oakland"," Jack London, and Me."
The parallels between the lives of Jack London and Eric Miles Williamson are startling: Both grew up in the same waterfront ghetto of Oakland, California; neither knew who his father was; both had insane mothers; both did menial jobs as youths and young men; both spent time homeless; both made their treks to the Northlands; both became...

The sheer energy and passion and intensity, the linguistic virtuosity of Eric Miles Williamsons latest novel, WELCOME TO OAKLAND, will leave readers breathless. The vigor and uncensored redneck honesty of T-Bird Murphys blue-collar voice will at turns delight, offend, amuse and enrage readers as T-Bird gives us what were not supposed to hear: the groans, gritos and war-whoops of men when theyre not behaving like gentlemen, when theyre out of sight and earshot, when theyre wrapped around their drinks at Dicks Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge or your local workingmans watering hole.


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In France, Eric Miles Williamson is known as "The Erudite Bukowski."
In America, he has been called "The Last Beat."

Best known for his internationally praised and stunning novels of the blue-collar world, with the publication of 14 Fictional Positions, Williamson now shows his readers he is much more than a chronicler of the lives of workers and Americas downtrodden. Williamson may have triumphantly captured the blue-collar experience in his novels, East Bay Grease, Two-Up, and Welcome to Oakland, but 14 Fictional Positions shows us that he, above all, is a painstakingly careful author...

Reading literary criticism can often be about as interesting as watching paint dry. Not so with the essays of Eric Miles Williamson. These essays are both erudite and explosive, thoughtful and outrageous, whether with praise or condemnation. One of the nation's most respected and feared literary critics, Williamson, in "Say It Hot: Essays on American Writers Living, Dying, and Dead," collects for the first time the essays of his famed and infamous literary column, "Say It Hot," which ran monthly for two years in the French magazine "Transfuge." Rounding out the collection are essays published...

Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent.

From the book: "Literary authors these days no longer make livings off their work. Their books are not to be found in bookstores, and the books are rarely printed by major New York publishing houses. No one reads their works except for other literary authors and the professors who are evaluating their tenure and...