MAXIMUM TAXI is my first novel! Released on June 1, 2023 through Anxiety Press! Now available on Amazon.com in print and e-book formats!
Maximum Taxi: Bales, Douglas: 9798387799457: Amazon.com: Books
If you want to order a signed copy, email me at larrybales34@gmail.com I can take paypal or venmo, and will mail a signed copy directly to you!
Maximum Taxi is a captivating, funny, and irreverent tale told by a narrator who exists on the cusp of one world and another. Doug, a down-on-his-luck but resilient cab driver in a rapidly modernizing Southern city, uses his relative anonymity to document his experiences almost as if from behind a camera, seeing everything but rarely being seen. Fans of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, and Nelson Algren will find a lot to love in Bales’s work.
-Taylor Gordon, Author/MFA
Douglas Bales comes from that great tradition of American storytellers. His voice is honest and unpretentious, and the rhythms of his prose lead us from moments that are sometimes light-hearted and always eye-opening. Gritty, darkly comical, compassionate, and heartbreaking...Maximum Taxi is a ride that doesn’t disappoint.
-David P Langlinais, Author of Duck Thief and Other Stories
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Local Author Has New Book, Maximum Taxi - Chattanoogan.com
Maximum Taxi – Douglas Bales - Underrated Reads
Podcasts:
“A Word” w/ Kellie Scott Reed from Roi Faineant Press.
“Another Fucking Writing Podcast” with Tyler Dempsey
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6CFMIbZZKBoRgl8zsgITsA?si=Ykqt52NNQ7GRAvw7lGBvdQ
Mysterious Goings On Podcast with Alexander Greenwood
News about my writing! You can find links here to my published poems, stories.
Douglas Bales has previously published a full novel, Maximum Taxi (Anxiety Press, June 2023). He has also had work published in Defuncted On-line Journal (March, 2023), Current Accounts (Issue 23, 2007), Inclement (Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2005), Inclement (Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2004), Flesh from Ashes (Vol. 3, 2004), Through the Window (Vol. 1 Issue 1, 2004), Skyline Magazine (Vol. 3 Issue 6, 2003), and Poem Train, Fast Track Contest (2003, 4th place).
Three Poems by Douglas Bales | Published in Defuncted | Defuncted (medium.com)
You can find 6 of my poems in this cool compilation by Yellow King Press