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by Robert W. Howington
"Howington, your writing's getting better. You must be drinking the right stuff." --- Charles Bukowski, in a handwritten letter to Howington on February 24, 1993.
Robert W. Howington's short
stories in JOEY AUTOMATIC & OTHER KILLERS --- a book of 'pulp reality' about modern day crime, murder and self-loathing told in a style that has been described by one reviewer of Howington's work as, "Mickey Spillane on acid." --- include: The Road To Hell This Town Sucks Love Reservoir Dog Laughing Like Killers Sign Out Time Some Stories Make Sense I Stopped Father Time What's That THING In The Woods? The Long Cool Drag Cool Man Pardon Me, But I Think We're Going To Be Killed Dead Guy Dharma Dreams And Black Holes Drink Cheap Beer Until You Pass Out Pulp Fiction (a.k.a. A Fifth, A Whore & A .38) Vittorio Curtoni, who lives in Piacenza, Italy, translated Howington's pulp noir fiction into Italian. Besides Howington, he's also translated the works of best-selling horror novelist Dean Koontz and highly-renowned sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick. Curtoni He also wrote the foreward --- "Un Poeta Del Trash (A Poet Of Trash)" --- to Howington's collection. Howington met Vittorio, named the 1997 Translator Of The Year by an Italian publishers, through the Internet when he submitted poems/stories to dada, an Italian literary e-zine that Vittorio edited, in 1996. Vittorio enjoyed Robert's stuff enough to tell him that if he found the right publisher he'd pitch Robert's stuff. Livio Muci, who runs Besa Editrice, was that publisher. Now Howington's book is on bookshop shelves in Italy and can be purchased over the Internet here.
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