One Damn Thing After Another

by Tim Hall

One Damn Thing After Another builds on the themes of word contagion and weaponized memes that the author explored in his previous book, 2009’s How America Died. Many of the characters in these stories have likewise been sickened by language: they exchange psychotic emails, adopt covert online personas, write fictitious book reviews and preach the authoritarian philosophies of Ayn Rand, oblivious to the harm they might be doing to themselves or others.

A scholar and a dropout clash in “The Condition.” Fact and fiction blur in “Drunken Fantasies, Vol. 1” as the author takes readers on a painfully funny tour through the insanity of his own booze-fueled grandiosity. For those who remain undeterred by these warnings, the author has also included a supplement that shows readers “How To Be An Underground Lit Legend” by employing many of the same tactics.

“Tim Hall is doing everything with writing that I tried doing with music in The Ramones.”
–Joey Ramone

“Hall’s writing snaps like a fallen power line.”
–Zine World

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Fall 2013--my first mystery, DEAD STOCK, has been published by Cozy Cat Press. Available at Amazon for Kindle or paperback.

Previously, Journalist, independent author and publisher. Two novels, HALF EMPTY and FULL OF IT, and two collections of stories, TRIUMPH OF THE WON'T and ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER.

My style is something I call Screwball Tragedy, finding the humor in pain and the ambivalence in redemption. Love, lust, and loss; conflict and confusion. Writing and reviews have appeared on Chicago Public Radio and in the Chicago Reader, NY Press, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Traveler, Time Out Chicago, Sheridan Sun, Texas Pan-American. Member of the Outsider Writers Collective, an international writers' organization with more than 700 members. http://timhallbooks.com

Reviews

[Brandon Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hall delivers us eight varied stories, variations on different personas and personality types. There's lot of playful fun with modern forms: the absurdity review pages (like this one) can take on (creating weird alternate worlds), the effects emails can have on a day, purely text-based-personas people can live behind, disclaimers and the stories they disclaim.

This is a limited print from a small press, so if you're interested, get one while you can!

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

While the Tim Hall is a funny dude, the pieces in this collection reflect just how well he does humor. It also reflects something that is as Hallian as anything. Tim Hall is indie, and few people capture and dissect the indie scene and scenesters like him.

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wickedly funny stuff here. Hall engages in some of the best absurdist satire I've read in quite a while. The writing is brash, arrogant, clever and literarily well crafted at the same time. On the edge of being 5 stars. I'll definitely be looking for more by this author.

[Mel Bosworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sharp as all hell, original, funny. Brilliant writing.

I highly recommend.