Presented here is Volume One of Tom DiVenti's illustrated cultural essays, serialized in Splice Today, and encompassing a sixty year span of music, poetry, politics and Baltimore esoterica.

The author takes stock of our American Mythology in plain language, defining himself, his context and his shadow. He survived the game, a horse that made up twenty lengths in the stretch and took the trouble to write it all down.

Prolific at an age when most men are rolling over, his second wind serves us an ice cold can of Natty Boh in flickering neon, an homage to the underdog and underbelly of not only his hometown Baltimore but our entire fruited plain.

Featuring photographs and illustrations by John Ellsberry, A.F. Knott, Paula Gillen, Jamie Wilson, and Katie Brennan.

Author: Tom DiVenti
Forward: William Moriarty
Publisher: Hekate Publishing
Pages: 183pp
Size: 5 x 8
Notes: paperback
Release Date: May 21, 2019
ISBN: 978-1912017744