In 2008, Donald Charles Davis, as The Aging Rebel, began writing news reports, essays and reviews aimed at an audience of motorcycle outlaws. The 50 selections in this book were originally published on the web at www.agingrebel.com. Readers have described the site as "William Saroyan meets Hunter Thompson." "What sets this site apart from everything else out there," one fan wrote, "is the amazing literary coverage (journalism in probably its finest form) of the most riveting real-life story lines imaginable in this age of the celebration of the vapid and irrelevant. Rebel's writing makes me...

In this collection of funny, smart, strongly plotted and heartbreaking stories Donald Charles Davis writes about six American dreamers including a motorcycle outlaw, a television weatherman, an art forger, a family man, a fisherman and an actor. Then he tells a seventh tale about the writer who imagined them all. Other books may claim to make you laugh and cry. A Summer's Worth Of Bitter Ends is one of the few books published in the last decade that actually will.

Out Bad is a true story about motorcycle outlaws and modern American police. It begins with the painstakingly assembled, never before told story of the murder of a Mongols Motorcycle Club member named Manuel Vincent "Hitman" Martin. Martin was shot off his motorcycle on the Glendale Freeway in Los Angeles about 2 a.m. on October 8, 2008. Initial reports alleged that Martin had been murdered by the Hells Angels and that he died as part of an ongoing, "furious feud" between the two groups. The truth behind the murder is much more interesting and disturbing than that. Martin died on the final...

Both the waning of America and the waning of the American novel have coincided with the decline of newspapers. Fortunately, a long, funny and sexy newspaper novel called The Working Press might yet save us all. The plot of The Working Press relentlessly unfolds at a third rate daily called the Boston Ledger-Transcript in 1980 just before the paper begins its long swan dive into bankruptcy. Typically, newspaper novels are funny books with sharp characters and The Working Press overflows with memorable characters and mirth. The publisher is a former slaver who detests reporters and frogs and...