Author Archives: Tony O'Neill

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In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie—the original lead singer of ‘70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways—powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and her struggle with drugs. An intense, behind-the-scenes look at rock music in the gritty, post-glam era, Neon Angel is a must-read for anyone whose heartContinue reading “Neon Angel w/ Cherie Currie”

Hero of the Underground is the riveting New York Times bestseller. I wasn’t afraid of death.  How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow sixty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with theContinue reading “Hero of the Underground (w/ Jason Peter)”

“It’s a beautiful day. It’s always a beautiful day in Los Angeles. You stop noticing after a while; the monotony of perfection. I am intensely aware of my own discomfort… the ache in my bones… we sit on the grass next to a sleeping winehead. The filthy pigeons circle us like ragged junkies mooching forContinue reading “Notre Dame du Vide”

From the author of SICK CITY, BLACK NEON and DOWN AND OUT ON MURDER MILE comes a collection of stories previously available only in long out-of-print literary magazines and fanzines. Written over the past decade the stories in DIRTY HITS veer between the junkie-memoir (“Boiling Blood”, “A Successful Morning”), character studies of those on theContinue reading “Dirty Hits: Selected Stories”

Lupita and Genesis have just wasted a drug dealer, ripped-off his stash, then hit the open road with a suitcase full of dirty money. Little do they know that their road trip will set them on a collision course with a side of America darker and weirder than either of them could have ever imagined.Continue reading “Black Neon”

Tony O’Neill’s debut poetry collection, collects together a series of early works published in online literary zines, long-lost print fanzines and poetry anthologies.    Stark and uncompromising, these poems pull no punches and ask no quarter.  “The great power of Tony O’Neill’s poems is obvious to anyone, but I hope people understand what a rare, extremeContinue reading “Songs From The Shooting Gallery”

In this collection of short stories and poems by Tony O’Neill, you will meet a host of bizarre, fringe characters: Frank the Dog Walker, a junkie trying to score on New Years Day in a deserted city… the maniacal Dr. Ira, who has a special way of dispensing methadone to his more compliant patients… theContinue reading “Seizure Wet Dreams”

DIGGING THE VEIN via AMAZON DIGGING THE VEIN via WRECKING BALL PRESS DIGGING THE VEIN via BARNES AND NOBLE On a relentless Los Angeles summer day, you walk barefoot over broken glass and melting tarmac to meet your connection, praying that he will extend your line of credit to one more bag of heroin. YouContinue reading “Digging the Vein”

Meet Jeffrey and Randal, two desperate junkies and your guides on this top-to-bottom fun-house tour of Hollywood’s underbelly.  From infamous crime scene to celebrity rehab centers, SICK CITY is an outrageous page-turning adventure set in the sun-bleached wilds of L.A. “Sick City is a disturbingly twisted ride through Hollywood’s underbelly with a degenerate cast of colorfullyContinue reading “Sick City”