Peter Plate, Author Seven Stories Press $20 (198p) ISBN 978-1-888363-95-1
There's a point in Plate's new novel when the narrator, a nickel-bag drug dealer named Doojie, spies a hooker walking up the street. What he sees has nothing to do with sex. Instead, he recognizes the washed-out eyes, the track marks, the veiny legs-
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Peter Plate, Author Seven Stories Press $13 (160p) ISBN 978-1-58322-639-1
A former squatter turned novelist takes a close look at San Francisco's seamy side as its maladjusted denizens careen against each other over the course of a single strange and magical day. When an armored Brink's truck is wrecked in front of...
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Peter Plate, Author Incommunicado Press $13 (184p) ISBN 978-1-888277-02-9
San Francisco's precarious welfare bureaucracy shudders with random acts of violence and corruption in this poorly realized account of urban decay set in the city's seamy Mission district. Social worker Charlene Hassler has abandoned whatever...
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