PERMANENT OBSCURITY

About me:

These days I live to write and appreciate retro-artifacts: mags, films, books. I love outsider, underground, sexploitation-noir, grindhouse films!

Hope you'll pick up my latest novel,

PERMANENT OBSCURITY:

Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana
(as told to Richard Perez)

'BOUT THE BOOK:

I need to emphasize that PERMANENT OBSCURITY is not "erotica" -- or a stroke book -- although it has BDSM overtones (leaning toward so-called "femdom"). It's really a dark comedy about bohemia and the difficulty of relationships (female/male and female/female) and finally the big question for anyone in the arts (or in the tabloid media): sudden fame vs. permanent anonymity. The style of the novel is inspired by '60s over-the-top sexploition films like those of Russ Meyer (FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) and those Something Weird Videos, like A SWEET SICKNESS and BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL [so-called “cautionary tales”]) -- updated to the Bush era (circa 2005).

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)

Written in the 3 parts:

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 1 - THE KINKY HOOK

Whereupon we are introduced to Dolores and Serena and their kinky shenanigans.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 2 - STRANGE HUNGERS

Whereupon Dolores and Serena grapple with relationship/sexuality issues, life-threatening drug dealers, irreversible money woes. Culminating in a desperate attempt at making a so-called "femdom" film.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 3 - NO MAN'S LAND

Whereupon Dolores and Serena find themselves in a place not expected. Namely, hell.

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I hope you'll check out my last book, THE LOSERS' CLUB (more on that below). To those who already have, let me just say thanks. Regardless of what you may think, I truly wrote it from the heart. Don't be shy to message me, by the way.

T H E   L O S E R S'   C L U B 

Storia D'Amore All'East Village … (Italian language translation of The Losers' Club) published Neri Pozza Editore, in Milano, Italy, 2008





Original U.S. version of The Losers’ Club: Complete Restored Edition! published in NYC, 7th printing, 2007





The Korean language translation of The Losers' Club published by Humandom, in Seoul, South Korea, 2007





Kaybedenler Kulübü ... (Turkish language translation of The Losers' Club) published by Say Yayinlari, in Istanbul, Turkey, 2007



T H E   L O S E R S'   C L U B ......

"A story of youth, very well told, and it dwells in the mind long after a reader finishes it."
-- Joanne Greenberg, author: I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

"A very beautiful valentine to a time and place almost faded from existence."
-- Mary Gaitskill, author: BAD BEHAVIOR, VERONICA

"I couldn't put it down. It's a brave book with a great deal of heart."
-- Poppy Z. Brite, author: LOST SOULS, LIQUOR: A NOVEL

"Reading Richard Perez's THE LOSERS' CLUB was a revelation to me. It is a novel by turns funny, poignant, and illuminating, perfect in its portraits of both the East Village scene of the mid-'90s and the often desperate personal ads subculture in New York City. Yet it is much more than a fictionalized social document· Beneath Perez's dead-on descriptions of downtown clubs and bars and of the people who patronized them is a sense of deep longing for what has been lostand for what may never be had. Perez's is an exciting talent and his work far beyond most of what is published today."
-- Henry Flesh, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of MICHAEL and MASSAGE

"Richard Perez has the ears of the angels -- lend him yours."
-- Barry Gifford, author: WILD AT HEART



"Richard Perez's The Losers' Club moves fast without blurring, and documents New York City in all its self-invented variety: kitsch/retro bars and cafes, goth vampires, dyke rock bands, desperately clever personal ads, the endless cruise for a parking space, and loneliness so relentless its victims wind up feeling stillborn. In its quicksilver way, Perez's novel manages to be cheerful, bleak, and edgy all at once."
-- John Vernon, author: A BOOK OF REASONS, PETER DOYLE

"Along with all its flamboyant extremes...an appealingly old fashioned love story at its core."
-- Madison Smartt Bell, author: ALL SOULS' RISING, TEN INDIANS

"Richard Perez is a clear-eyed chronicler of the New York club scene and a compassionate observer of the lives lived in the carnival at the center of the world. He is a sociologist and a historian, telling the truth about the way we live now. He's funny, honest, and compassionate. We can only hope that The Losers' Club is but the first act in Richard Perez's Human Comedy."
-- John Dufresne, author, LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT, LOVE WARPS THE MIND A LITTLE



"It is a book to be savored."
-- Tim Sandlin, author: SORROW FLOATS, SOCIAL BLUNDERS

"The Losers' Club evokes a real and genuine sense of place -- the world of the East Village -- and people -- single, young and desperate -- written with zest, energy and enthusiasm."
-- Tama Janowitz, author: SLAVES OF NEW YORK

"Funny and endearing and wisely not so hip as to avoid a good grab for your heart."
-- Marcie Hershman, author: SAFE IN AMERICA, TALES OF THE MASTER RACE