WannaBeat

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WannaBeat, my novel about beatnik wannabes and proto-punk rockers in the sex-and-drugs drenched maelstrom of late 1970s San Francisco, is available here and here and wherever fine indie lit is sold. Buy it! Read it! Tell your friends!

“Polonoff writes exquisitely—and hilariously…” — Ross Barkan, The End of Bohemia

“Polonoff … weaves a compelling, eulogistic portrait of a city lost to history.” — Nick Dove, The Metropolitan Review

“WannaBeat is witty, insightful and sharp, framing a tenderly cynical twist on the rite of passage saga.” — Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation

This riveting book joins George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and Henry Miller’s The Paris Years on the shelf of the timeless call of bohemia to fascinated young dreamers. — Andrei Codrescu, NPR Poetry Guru (former)

“Polonoff has a fantastic voice (energetic and captivating and easy) and a real eye not just for enthralling detail but for big arc.” Nathan Heller, The New Yorker