Böcker av Mather Schneider

Praise for The Bacanora Notebooks"The world discovered Van Gogh after he was dead. Please world-discover Mather Schneider while he's still alive. He's that good. And The Bacanora Notebooks is Schneider at his best."-Mark Rogers, author of Uppercut"A love story set in an American southwest colored by housefires and dumps, and bacanora. Frijoles charlas cervezas sudor pobreza plata y amor, stick your nose in Schneider's working man's border bible. One of the great reads of 2023, or any other year. Gritty and unapologetic."-Colin Gee, author of Lips"In polished vignettes, Schneiders stripped-down prose exposes the hypocrisy, selfishness, and petty cruelty that's ubiquitous these days, at the same time expressing great tenderness and compassion for both victims and perpetrators."-Mark Parsons, poet

"I don''t want to hang out with the puke-faces I work with. Who would? The meth-mouths, the crackheads, the criminals. Cab drivers are scum. I''m sorry."Taxi drivers are part of the lifeblood of every city. They''re responsible for taking everyone where they need to go, from rich yuppies hopped up on coke to senile old people on government vouchers. They know the best routes to take, where you can have a good time, and where the bodies are buried. On a long enough timeline, taxi drivers will see the best and worst that the world has to offer.6 to 6 is Mather Schneider''s memoir of his years as a taxi driver and the panoply of mental asylum escapees, Hispanic gangsters, drunk businessmen, and other colorful figures who''ve ridden in his cab. With clean prose and dry wit, 6 to 6 is an uncompromising look at humanity filtered through the eyes of a working man.Originally serialized on Terror House Magazine from 2019 to 2020, Terror House Press is proud to bring this modern classic into print.

Prickly is a medley of nonacademic, unprofessional poems written by a cantankerous, often drunken cab driver. They range from prose-like narratives to more lyrical poems. The subjects areloosely based on Schneider's cab fares who are often mentally deranged or physically ill and also from his personal life, the domestic life of a below-blue-collar gringo and a Mexican immigrant. There is sex, humor, rants on artists and writers, and the thorny beauty of the American Southwest.

Mather Schneider's second full-length collection of poems, HE TOOK A CAB, takes the reader on an unforgettable ride of a lifetime. With each poem, Schneider propels the reader into a mindset of having just hailed a cab in a David Lynch movie--one where seemingly simple stories resonate deeper and deeper within the reader every time the book is read.