Dark Mountain 2

Posted by Antonio Dias on June 29, 2011

“It may be the most honest attempt at literature we’ve seen.”
Sharon Astyk

Cover Illustration by Rima Staines

The Dark Mountain 2 anthology is out! Follow the link to the announcement on their site.

I’m deeply honored to have a chapter from my novel, Something for Nothing included along with this incredible list of poets, writers, and thinkers.

Naomi Klein, David Abram, Vinay Gupta, Paul Kingsnorth, Glyn Hughes, Luanne Armstrong, Charles Hugh Smith, Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Venkatesh Rao, Warren Draper, Darren Allen, Catherine Lupton, Tom Keyes, Jay Griffiths, Melanie Challenger, Nick Hunt, William Haas, Simon Lys, Albert Pierce Bales, Antony Lioi, Em Strang, Joel Moore, Mario Petrucci, Adrienne Odasso, Robert Walker, Benjamin Morris, Stephen Wheeler, Andrea Dulberger, Heathcote Williams, Gerry Loose, and Dougald Hine.

My apologies to anyone whose web presence I’ve garbled – please set me straight if you can! Also links for the ones I couldn’t find.

Reading at Writer’s Voice Café

Posted by Antonio Dias on May 19, 2011

Provincetown TV has been videotaping the featured writers at the Writer’s Voice Café at Napi’s in Provincetown for the last few months. I was lucky enough to have my reading taped and here it is!

Writers Voice Cafe: Antonio Dias from Provincetown Community TV on Vimeo.

The Dark Mountain 2 anthology can be pre-ordered here.

An Interview on Dateline Provincetown

Posted by Antonio Dias on January 30, 2011

Jim Brosseau, host of Dateline Provincetown recently interviewed me about my writing.

Dateline Provincetown: An Interview with Antonio Dias.

We talk about writing Shoal Hope and I read a short excerpt from Something for Nothing and my poem, From Wood End…

a novel of Provincetown, Prohibition, & the Aftermath of War

Posted by Antonio Dias on October 20, 2010

MacFarlane walked up the roll of the deck, and down the other side, settling into the same position at the port rail, looking towards that dim glow. The schooner took an awkward hitch and his other hip bumped the rail. The barrel of his .45 took a hard crush against bone and bent him over. He knocked his elbow against the rail-cap jerking to regain his balance.
He guttered under his breath, “Ugh!” pulling his hand out of its pocket and reaching for one of the shrouds.
He muttered. “I hate guns.”

excerpt from the first chapter, Actæon

Something for Nothing carries forward strands from Shoal Hope another dozen years. It too is a story of Provincetown, now during Prohibition and the aftermath of World War I on the verge of the Crash of 1929. Unlike Shoal Hope which was structured around the local fisheries, the fish traps, the spiral of the Cape itself; this story revolves around a disaster in the late fall of 1927 when a U.S. Navy submarine, the S-4, was rammed and sunk by a destroyer operating as part of the Coast Guard’s anti-rumrunner patrol within sight of Provincetown’s Wood End. Six sailors survived the incident. They awaited rescue as the weather worsened and their air grew foul. We peer into a variety of lives in this fateful year haunted by this collision to come or torn by its aftermath.