“Packed with punk filth, pulp grit, and the darkest humor this side of death itself, The Belcher is the drunken chronicle of an ultraviolent miscreant of a hero — the kind the 21st century has forgotten but truly needs.”
-Jason Heller, author of Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
“This is a real gem for troubadours. It is Kafkaesque, super-human, high ladder bullet-train to absurdity and yet it has a worldly critique baiting us by the pop grammatology of Hollywood. Utterly enjoyable, but only for the ‘uncommitted.’”
-Travis Culley, author of A Comedy and a Tragedy
“Take one shot superhero mythology for the modern age, one shot of ‘Fritz the Cat’-style sleaze humor and mix thoroughly in a trash can, and you’ve got ‘The Belcher.’ As a writer for Modern Drunkard Magazine, Luke Schmaltz has already established himself as a top-tier tastemaker of all things down and dirty, be it a martini or a street fight, and with ‘The Belcher’ his literary voice finds a fitting everyman character in Earl, a ramshackle drunk with a throat of vengeance. Prepare to be entertained.”
-JT Habersaat / Altercation Punk Comedy Tour
“Well … I almost cried multiple times from laughing.”
-Tay Hamilton, Denver guitarist
“The Belcher carefully portrays a beer drinking, bar fighting, parallel universe inhabited by fantastical and well-developed characters who seem beyond imagination. The reader is immediately thrown into a dirtier, grittier, and much funnier version of the façade we make of our world. Schmaltz’s characters, his gift with words, and his expertise as a barfly makes this a book that you cannot put down.”
-Matthew Kennedy Stewart, CEO National Services Group, Former Chairman of the Global Board, The Entrepreneurs Organization.
“Awash with booze and brutal action, Luke Schmaltz’s first book sings like a cruel and richly-deserved whipcrack across the back of America’s complacent reading public.”
-Frank Kelley Rich, Editor, Modern Drunkard Magazine
“A heroic punk rock love story. A rad read for all punks, rockers, geeks and freaks. A Must for any underground Mile-High musician.”
-Randall Conrad Olinger, musician
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