A MESSAGE FROM JOHNNY KNEECAPS

Hot town, summer in the city, Thuglit 31 gettin' real dirty and gritty.

Time to pick your forehead up off the bar and wipe the drool from your gob. (We'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's your drool.)

Here it is, another eight ball of knuckle crunching, head banging fun to while away the vacation hours floating in your neighbor's kiddie pool:

In this issue of THUGLIT:

• In this town, everybody gets fucked, one way or the other…or both ways.
• Don’t pick up that pickup in your pick-up.
• A friend in need is a friend who bleeds.
• Some questions are better left unanswered.
• Wrong place, wrong time, wrong body.
• Parece el profesor quiere excavar su student' bragas de s más que ruinas. Mi espanol es mal.
• One too many punches to the head can leave a man…  Hey! A donut!
• Strange things happen to a man in The Hole…and I ain’t talking about my honeymoon.  WAKKA WAKKA!!!!

THUGLIT – ISSUE 31

DEGENERATES BOOK CLUB

For the next couple of DBC’s we’re going to highlight some of the best work from the contributors to the new Thuglit anthology, Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll – WHICH can be purchased

HERE (Amazon)

or HERE (Barnes & Noble)

or HERE (Powells Books)

or HERE (Indiebound)

or HERE  (Kensington Books)

Subtle enough for ya?  Buy the goddamn thing already.

	Controlled Burn – by Scott Wolven There’s a reason why Scott Wolven has had a story in each and every Best American Mystery Stories since the last century.  If you don’t know, then find out…and recognize.  These 13 short stories will make you a believer in the power of the short story once again.  Wolven is a genius.  That’s right I said it.
	Lights Out – by Jason Starr Ryan and Jake at one point were high school baseball phenoms both heading straight into the pros.  One made it.  One didn’t.  Now they’re both fucking Christina.  Proverbial shit hits proverbial fan.  We’ve already called Jason Starr the heir apparent to Jim Thompson’s throne.  Need more than that?  Then you’re a dick.
	Savage Season – by Joe R. Lansdale The book that introduces one our all-time favorite pairs, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.  Hap is a good ol’ boy, a workaday six-pack kind of guy.  Leonard is a gay, black martial artist.  They’re best friends living in the middle of rural East Texas.  As one would imagine, hijinks ensue.   In Savage Season, Hap’s ex-girlfriend returns with a plan to recover six figures worth of cash.  As I said, hijinks ensue.

As always, the Thug Picks will be featured in Manhattan's coolest indie bookshop, McNally Jackson Booksellers. Visit them.  Buy something.