Winans…an artful man who makes it all seem so easy, a captive writer in his home port, San Francisco, a voice nailed onto the soil of his native land, capable of writing as he speaks.”Ī. He pulls no punches.”Īnd poet Neeli Cherkovski notes that “ Here is a word-slinger, A. He has great heart and compassion for people and his native city, San Francisco, I like his uncompromising spirit. The things and people he admires and loves get admirably straight-forward treatment as well. The books he put out under the Second Coming Press imprint as far back as the early 1970s did a lot to define an alternative literary sensibility of the times, and his own writings have always cast a jaundiced eye on the presumptions of the moneyed classes, the careerists and the poseurs, expressed with articulate and appropriate contempt. as a straight talker, poet and West Coast small press publisher of major importance. Winans will read from his first short story collection, In the Pink - erotic tales released in January by Pedestrian Press with a cover too scandalous for, and thus issued simultaneously in a cover tame enough for that demure literary institution.įor decades, we’ve admired A.D.
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