March 2011
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“Willeford clearly was a man who loved words and that love comes through here....”
– Brian Lindenmuth on our Kindle release of Poontang
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We hope you like Poontang
Originally published in 1967, this short book of poems is the rarest of Charles Willeford’s works. Used copies of it are available usually in the range of $2,500 to $3,500.
Wit’s End licensed the work from Betsy Willeford, and you can get the book now for $0.99 in the amazon kindle store.
“Willeford’s experience of his life led him to a certain attitude toward the world...
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Willeford Writes
After lighting my cigarette I said, not unkindly, “If you don’t like to fish and you don’t eat fish, why have you been fishing all day? I remember seeing you in this same spot when I crossed the bridge at around nine this morning.” He was silent.
“Because,” he said at last, “I don’t know what else to do. Before I retired I was vice-president of an insurance company in St. Louis. And this is what...
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"Strange" by Charles Willeford
“The unlikely father of Miami crime fiction.” Atlantic Monthly
The question wasn’t what is the best place to pick up women in Miami. It wasn’t what was the easiest place either. The big question the three friends discussed was what was the most difficult place to pick up women in 1970’s Miami. When the expert of the group, Hank, takes on the challenge his friends...
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“My work is one
long triumph
over my
limitations.”
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Charles Willeford
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“Quirky is the word that always comes to mind. Willeford wrote quirky books about...”
– Lawrence Block
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The Ordainment of Brother Springer by Charles...
This darkly humorous one act play is a riff on Charles Willeford’s “masterpiece” (as it was called by The Washington Post), THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER. It re-imagines the ordainment of Sam Springer — a drifter novelist — as a pastor of the Church of God’s Flock in Jacksonville, FL.
Available for 99 cents at the Kindle Store
“I had a hunch that...
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"I'm not really breaking the genre, just bending...
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Charles Willeford: The Old Man at the Bridge
Here is Charles Willeford’s slyly humorous meditation on fishing, relationships and machismo.
Available for 99 cents at the Kindle Store
“Nobody writes a better crime novel,” Elmore Leonard said of Willeford.
Discussing Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino has said that the film “is not noir. I don’t do neo-noir. I see Pulp Fiction as closer to modern-day crime...