Scott Holstad talks 1990s Long Beach/L.A. & reads 4 poems featured in The Long Beach Union

US Review of Books: RECOMMENDED REVIEW of Scott C. Holstad's Surviving Immortality Again!

The Times, They Are a Changing

The times, they are a changing. The physical transformations that FIVE (5) DECADES of writing have forced upon Scott C. Holstad. 1988 - 2021. A slideshow of the path my career and journey as a writer has taken me over a FIVE DECADE span (which is really hard to believe). All of these photos representing …

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Scott C. Holstad’s TOP Subject Rankings in Open Library

I was surprised to learn I'm the #1 "Most Prolific Author" in 14+ diverse topics/categories in Open Library's 2 million titles. I wondered what they were. Here they are! (God, what does this say about me?)

Have Some Caffeine!

I've been crazy busy the past five weeks and haven't had a chance to get online very often, but one thing I've been able to make a little time for is finally unpacking some boxes that have been in storage for the past few (okay, many) years while trying to find old contributor copies of …

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A Review of West of Rome

West of Rome by John Fante My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first read Fante some 25 years ago through, of course, the Bukowski connection and I was not disappointed. I bought and read a half dozen Fante books. Then, for some odd reason, I forgot about him. Until recently. Lately, I’ve been pulling …

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