Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women

This is the second, much better, edition of Michael W. Dean’s first book, came out in 2000. This book is the adventures of Cash Newmann. A lot of people think all you need to be a rock star is a microphone, tight pants and some heroin. But it takes more than a six-pack and a typewriter to be great. For every original like Bukowski, Poe, or Cash Newmann, there are two million junkie/drunk hacks clutching their pens while they die in the gutter, claiming to be artists. Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women is 99,000 words of taut, steady fiction centered mostly in the underground rock world of San Francisco. The book would appeal to fans of Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, and Jim Carroll. The angle is unique, however; one-third of the story was written while the author was using drugs. The remainder of the writing, and all of the editing, occurred during the years of drug-free living. This mixture lends a credible attraction as well as a shimmering clarity to the adventures. “Dean opens the doors to tripping madness which remind us that pretty posters and patchouli do not psychedelia make.” -Spin Magazine “Michael W. Dean is a talented and dedicated writer with a steadfast work ethic. I’m sure that he will be read for years to come.” -Don Bajema, Author, 2.13.61 Press, “Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women is an inventively voiced Go Ask Alice for the millennium.” -The Probe Magazine