Brown Fedora Books is a writers consortium producing books that are “Rebar tough and built to last.”
Brown Fedora Books is a boutique publisher of e-books and hard copy books. Its authors have received numerous prestigious awards and recognition.
THE CART SAVIOR is out in hardcover.
Reviewers have called THE CART SAVIOR “a heartfelt exploration of the human condition” and “a gripping and thought-provoking read that delves deep into the depth of the human psyche.” Its plot is unique, the ending powerful and unexpected.
Although few in number, BFB readers are selective and entitled. They demand a good books, we provide it.
The Cart Savior
It has come to our attention that this novel is being purchased and read by complete strangers. While not illegal, this practice is discomforting and frowned upon. BROWN FEDORA BOOKS is a boutique publisher that eschews popularity, even though we are not sure what the word “eschew” means.
It might be a type of vegetable.
BROWN FEDORA BOOKS is a boutique publishing house with an attitude.
[The word “prolific” was invented to describe Silverback Jim. He’s a guy who marches to his own beat and writes a lot of stuff down. Interesting stuff. Others write about Ernest H…
Five Star Reviews:
"A heartfelt exploration of the human condition"
"Raw and unflinching, THE CART SAVIOR is a gripping and thought-provoking read that delves deep into the depths of the human psyche."
See the entire reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.
In a world of corporate cowboys, BROWN FEDORA BOOKS is an indie Indian.
BROWN FEDORA BOOKS is pleased to introduce the new novel from Jim DeFilippi.
The reviews are in:
Amazon: “Our number one new release in Women’s History Studies.”
“A compelling portrait, a comprehensive, thoroughly documented profile in courage, topped with admiration for women everywhere!”
“The strong, sometimes humorous, sometimes serious voice this author employs to weave the tale of a life fearlessly lived, and the glass ceilings Gellhorn shattered.”
“An amazing job covering Women’s History in the U.S. and elsewhere, AND telling the story of the writer Martha Gellhorn.”
“A treasure!”
“One sympathizes with the author’s genuine outrage throughout the book, as it unravels mercilessly the history of women’s unequal rights and the pressures put upon them to live by certain rules in America.”
BROWN FEDORA BOOKS is proud to introduce our new line of audiobooks. Three of Jim DeFilippi’s titles are now available as audiobooks, as well as paperback and ebook.
THE MULES OF MONTE CASSINO and DUCK ALLEY are also in hard cover.
In this collection of hard-boiled short stories, Charles Ardai respects the rules and boundaries of noir fiction while at the same time expanding, explaining, and exploding them.
His McGuffin might be “a banded stack of hundred dollar bills” or a roll of quarters. His tough guy could be a petty street-corner thug selling gasoline, or a petty casting agent trying to bed a starlet. Each time, the author takes a black and white world and colorizes it with expanded depth, surprising detail, and dialogue so real it leaves spit on the sidewalk.
Even those stories that remain skin-tight close to the typical noir plot structure provide us with an ammo-belt of neat twists. The story “Nobody Wins” begins with a scene we have read and seen a thousand times— a client brings a missing-person case into the private-eye’s office— but here the client isn’t a beautiful woman, he’s an oversized ogre of a hoodlum. “Jonas and the Frail” stacks switch-eroo upon switch-eroo upon switch-eroo. The final story investigates history’s first ever killing by gun shot.
A few of the stories skid off the roadway of hard-boiled fiction into the ditch of soft-boiled fantasy— comic book super-heroes and reincarnations of Elvis— but I suppose even Mickey Spillane had to do a light beer commercial once in a while.
Altogether, rarely does today’s pulp run this smooth and enticing and surprising.
A poetry book from our crime novelist?
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BUSTING STONES: The Trials and Treasures of Martha Gellhorn
I’m not trying to tell you that Indie Books are any better than Corporate, it’s just that Indie authors are less restricted, less accountable, freer to experiment, allowed “to walk out there along the edge.”
At their best, Indie Books can be earth-shaking, rule-breaking, mind-bending, genre-blending words and “swirls of angel hair.” Leaving strands of truth in your mouth, damp and sticky across the tongue. Freed from the thorny crown of consumer thinking and commercialism, Indie writers are free to take to the high ground, “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”
A carousel of fame and glory? Royalties fit for royalty? Nah, the Indie Book author can “take that dream and burn it,” instead finding perfect contentment in total commitment.
Indie Books are the future. Better yet, they’re already here. Look around. Read the writings on the wall, Gideon’s clarion call, sentences being written with drips of undiluted brain juice, leaving drops of warm blood on the keyboard.
Indie Books— the workplace of writers whose intentions are pure, whose methods are reckless, whose works are fresh-baked but IED surprising.
—Jim DeFilippi, 2023
From BFB Author Jim DeFilippi:
Dear Indie Book Reader,
This insightful and beautifully written review is by the internationally know poet and essayist Stephanie V. Sears about my book BUSTING STONES, which Amazon named “The Number One New Release in Women’s History Studies.”
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023
Review of ‘Busting Stones’ by Jim DeFilippi.
This is the story of a remarkable woman, Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent and literary writer. From the beginning of the twentieth century to about the year 2000, the author, Jim DeFilippi, weaves together her life with that of America’s evolution as a nation. The tone is irreverent and amusing, particularly, when it addresses the country’s handling of the women’s liberation movement. Jim DeFilippi, whose affection for his heroine transpires throughout the book, bemoans her self-defeating disregard for her journalistic writing as she aspires to become a literary writer; something she achieves, though perhaps not with the level of success she had hoped for. The fault, concludes DeFilippi - with what seems like paternal frustration - lies, partly, with her own precarious self-esteem. You feel that the author wants to yell at her : ‘You’re more than good enough, don’t waste your energy on self-doubt…” DeFilippi partially forgives her, however., by expounding on American misogyny at the time, ( one so well embodied by Martha Gellhorn’s first husband , Ernest Hemingway, and referred to, by DeFilippi with acerbity, as the ‘bloated proser’).
The author’s voice is masculine, rugged, often derisive, yet also touchingly indignant that Martha Gellhorn did not get more acclaim for her work. He clearly considers her a much braver and better war reporter than Hemingway who, intentionally or not, kept her in his shadow.
In fact, I, myself, knew nothing about this outstanding woman until I read ‘Busting Stones’. If I had previously come across her name, it was probably, indeed, through her connection with Hemingway.
One sympathizes with the author’s genuine outrage throughout the book, as it unravels mercilessly the history of women’s unequal rights and the pressures put upon them to live by certain rules in America, land of the free, and elsewhere in the world. One can only agree that the female half of humanity has too long received scraps of individuality and self-realization, thrown under the table as to a pet, by male dominated societies.
The United States, another central character in ‘Busting Stones’, gives up its misogyny with reluctance. To a ‘chauvin’ United States, womanhood resembles an exotic and unpredictable country, but inconveniently situated within the nation’s own boundaries. And to the author, Martha Gellhorn represents an essential dynamic towards change in the socio-political landscape of the country, one that goes well beyond gender inequality.
Yet it is at this point, as a woman, that one departs slightly from DeFilippi’s portrayal of Martha Gellhorn as being in contradiction with herself throughout much of her life. He finds inconsistency where , to a woman , there is none. He opposes her feminine foibles to her daring and talent as a professional:” For months, she would pour more interest into the shape of her ass than to the shape of her paragraphs”. One is tempted to accuse him of Manicheism. From the female side where I stand, an accomplished woman can have her feminine ‘frivolities’ and be damn good at what she does professionally. When he notes:” She would dress herself in Schiaparelli suits….”, one wants to categorically reject the criticism. We, liberated women, know very well that our happiness includes wearing ‘mud-caked brogans’ one moment, and wearing ‘ridiculous’ stilettos the next. Which, by the way, are not ridiculous to a woman, a fortiori, one who enjoys fashion, and displaying her own shapely legs. Adopting different styles of dress, or behavior, is second nature to a woman, and not incompatible with her accomplishments, whether she is an astronaut or a civil engineer…. It creates, to the contrary, a kind of glorious synergy.
Martha Gellhorn admits to having used her physical attractiveness to facilitate her work:
” Maybe I care so much about looks because ….I lived on them well and truly, and with easy confidence.” She comes after a long line of exceptional women across the world who managed to accomplish great deeds by way of courage, intelligence but also by way of seduction.
So Martha Gellhorn took cyanide. But no one is uniformly happy throughout one’s life….
One should not feel too sorry for her.After all, she did achieve professional excellence, she had many adventures, a great deal of s*x, apparently, love, motherhood, friendship, and very good clothes…To top it off, here is a book about her that keeps you rivetted from beginning to end, and that clamors to the world her talent, fearlessness , and humanistic values.
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