The Do-Nothing Boys is Tony Nesca's brand new novel, a raucous tale of teenage rebellion recounting the exploits of a... More > teenager named Ziggy, recently returned to Canada after a three year hiatus in his native country of Italy, and the group of friends that spontaneously gather around him. A result of parental divorce, he turns to sex, drugs and rock and roll and in the process discovers deep friendship, love, loss, disintegration, and the beautiful, sad and wondrous experience of living. Written in an incendiary and gritty stream of consciousness, the words cascade down the page in a free-flow waterfall of ideas and happenings, hallucinatory at moments with surreal jaunts of what Nesca himself calls “word music”, but never straying far from the downright gritty and street-tough prose, laced throughout with a constant sexual/erotic underpinning. < Less

“About a girl” is a short novel that begins with two strangers, a man and a woman, who meet at a bus-stop and go on an... More > impromptu bar-crawl on a cool, winter day. Taking place in twelve hours it recounts the oddball, hardcore, characters they meet and their increasing emotional connection as they fall for each other almost immediately. Infused with sexual energy, pop-culture references, intellectual debate and literary allusions this is an unapologetic, uncensored look at our society through the eyes of the outsider. It is written in a free-flow, spontaneous style with long unhindered sentences that enable the reader’s eye to glide down the page as the story flows and moves to an urban beat of strippers, punk rockers and nightlife happenings. < Less

Hobo is the sixth novel of underground writer Tony Nesca, a rambunctious, rebellious drunk-happy love story about a... More > struggling writer who moonlights as a Night Watchman at a college located right in the middle of the ghetto. His wife is also a writer and together they publish their books and live a dual life of family and home with late night bohemian living, the whole time surrounded by an array of street-people, broke artists, and other fringe-dwellers. Sexually frank and charged with humor and desperation, Hobo is a unique work, a gritty celebration of life, love and individuality, written in Nesca’s classic free-flow-lyric, with words, ideas and sentences that go on for pages, alive and beautiful and unapologetic. < Less

Emma Strunk is a novel-in-verse about a group of downtown, core-area dwellers taking place in the fictional town of peg... More > zero, and the lives they lead through addiction, wandering, love and sex. From Laura the goth crack-head, to Reggie the Barbados immigrant turned small time criminal, to the drug dealing Bob and many others, Emma Strunk takes you through an uncensored, desperate, emotional, humorous, gut-wrenching and sometimes surreal wild trip of late-night-ghetto-living, and the struggles and small triumphs that ensue. Written in free-form verse, or poetry if you like, Emma Strunk is a singular and important work from the pen of underground writer Tony Nesca. < Less

La Gioconda is a boozy, rock and roll love story about a Canadian college student who meets a beautiful young exchange... More > student from France, and their unexpected immediate connection as they're surrounded by a whirlwind of marijuana sex-jaunts and live-band, late-night drunk loving. Both sad and beautiful, desperate and raunchy, and jam-packed with humour, La Gioconda is written in Nesca's unique free-flow-lyric, with words, ideas and sentences that go on for pages, alive and beautiful and unfettered by conventional modes of writing. < Less

Jukebox Music is a collection of poems written in a lyrical yet gritty and uncensored free-flow style. Like all of Tony... More > Nesca's books it is a unique and singular work, full of music, sexual energy and tons of fringe-living barroom experiences. < Less

Vodka Orange Sunday is a collection of stories, poems and articles written in Tony Nesca's unique free-flow style, full of... More > that incredible, rhythmic prose that only he can do. Both lyrical and street-tough, often in the same breath, the words dance and sing and shock and cajole and insult. From a simple tale detailing a long summer walk written in a spontaneous, stream-of consciousness, to a wild night at a strip joint that attacks the senses with bawdy humor, to poems about love and sex and music and everything in-between, Vodka Orange Sunday is a celebration of being alive, a romantic, sexually charged discourse on life written in beautiful, long-flowing sentences that go on for pages, alive, unfettered and free. < Less

Short stories and poems about love and hate

Dishpig is an unconventional approach to writing. Written in five weeks, spontaneously and in a free-flow style, sentences... More > go on for pages, undisciplined and full of vitality, exuberance and sexuality. It chronicles the bawdy adventures of a dishwasher/unpublished writer as he tries to make sense of what it means to be alive. From the fifteen year old Brazilian Maria, to the young, beautiful, wayward Betsy, to the protagonist, Tony, cynical but full of life, Dishpig takes you through the streets and bars of urban Winnipeg and the trendy strips of little Italy. With a keen sense of confused insight and humor, the language whips through a landscape of lost dreams and oddball characters, serious at moments, downright grim at others, but never collapsing to the point of complete defeat. It’s a rush of vitality. It's a sense of living. There hasn't been a book like this in quite some time... < Less

"About a girl" is a short novel that begins with two strangers, a man and a woman, who meet at a bus-stop and go on an... More > impromptu bar-crawl on a cool, winter day. Taking place in twelve hours it recounts the oddball, hardcore, characters they meet and their increasing emotional connection as they fall for each other almost immediately. Infused with sexual energy, pop-culture references, intellectual debate and literary allusions this is an unapologetic, uncensored look at our society through the eyes of the outsider. It is written in a free-flow, spontaneous style with long unhindered sentences that enable the reader’s eye to glide down the page as the story flows and moves to an urban beat of strippers, punk rockers and nightlife happenings (Hardcover version) < Less