wit's end publishing

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 and his place in it, and this attitude, ironic without meanness, comic but deeply caring, informed every book he ever wrote, from his two volumes of autobiography through all the unnoticed novels.” Donald Westlake

“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 propose, things quickly go from bad to worse in this darkly humorous novella by Charles Willeford, dubbed “the Pope of Psychopulp” by The Village Voice.

Available for 99 cents at the Kindle Store

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 fiction, a little closer to Charles Willeford.”