Ryan Bartek - The Silent Burning

'THE SILENT BURNING' a book by Ryan Bartek

This is the debut anthology of USA writer, journalist & musician Ryan Bartek. At first glance 'THE SILENT BURNING' appears to be a scattered anthology, but at core, it’s an all-American anti-speech for the ages. No stone is left unturned – Columbine, occultism, madness, drug abuse, black comedy, anarchism, punk rock, heavy metal, propaganda, pan-tribalism, zombies, psychedelics, lunatic cops, garbage cinema, the Orwellian police state – all topics which are presented in a surrealistic fashion that will appeal to fans of William S Burroughs, Celine, Charles Bukowski, Fernando Pessoa, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Comte de Lautreamont, Fyodor Dostoevski, Franz Kafka & such writers.

It’s a tough book to describe because it has no direct comparison – it is also fanatically anti-commercial & jarringly shocking. Originally released on January 5th 2005 by Elitist Publications, “THE SILENT BURNING” was quickly pulled from stores because of its highly confrontational, raw & offensive nature.

Written for the sole purpose of brutal self therapy, 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a take no prisoners account of bi-polar depression from the grim bowels of Detroit. Created during supreme hopelessness (circa 1998-2002), 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a ruthless anti-speech that supremely capsizes the Post-Cobain/Pre-Columbine 'Dark Generation' who soon grew into adulthood watching 'Fight Club' one too many times.

Somewhere between 'The Wall,' 'The Downward Spiral' & every death metal album imaginable, 'THE SILENT BURNING' is a nexus of black humor that is essentially a mammoth poem fragmented into a mosaic of vignettes, soliloquies, dream narratives, journal entries, poems, & misanthropic rants.

Ryan Bartek is also the author of the non-fiction road books/music journalism exposes 'THE BIG SHINY PRISON (Volume One),' 'FORTRESS EUROPE (The Big Shiny Prison Vol. II). He performs spoken word under his real name, and has two acoustic/antifolk records as JACK CASSADY. He also is the former guitarist of grindpunk acts AKA MABUS and SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC.

If the torrent doesn't work, you can also download 'THE SILENT BURNING' and Ryan Bartek's other books & music free @ http://ryanbartek.angelfire.com/blog/

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