{"id":2895,"date":"2011-04-09T23:45:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T06:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/an-american-demon\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T00:49:44","slug":"an-american-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/09\/an-american-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/readings\/jack-grisham-demon\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Quimby&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 60px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'American Typewriter', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #444444; text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/readings\/jack-grisham-demon\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link to Monstrous Achievement : Jack Grisham Reads From His New Memoir An American Demon 5\/14\" style=\"color: #444444; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Monstrous Achievement : Jack Grisham Reads From His New Memoir An American Demon 5\/14<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Demon.jpg\" style=\"color: #ff3399; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/American-Demon-200x300.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3886\" title=\"American Demon\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" style=\"border-color: initial; border-style: initial; max-width: 620px; float: left; display: block; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 10px\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><em style=\"font-family: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/tag\/an-american-demon\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with An American Demon\" style=\"color: #ff3399; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">An American Demon<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/tag\/jack-grisham\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with Jack Grisham\" style=\"color: #ff3399; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Grisham<\/a>\u2019s story of depravity and redemption, terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/tag\/tsol\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"Posts tagged with TSOL\" style=\"color: #ff3399; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">TSOL<\/a>\u00a0(True Sounds of Liberty), his writing and true life experiences are physically and psychologically more complex and unsettling than those of Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk.<\/p>\n<p>Eloquently disregarding the prefabricated formulas of the drunk\u2013to\u2013sober, bad\u2013to\u2013good tale, this is an entirely new kind of life lesson: summoned through both God and demons, while settling within eighties hardcore punk culture and its radical\u2013to\u2013the\u2013core (and most assuredly non\u2013evangelical) parables, Grisham leads us, cleverly, gorgeously, between temporal violence and bigger-picture spirituality toward something better.<strong style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><em style=\"font-family: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">An American Demon<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0flourishes on both extremes, as a scary hardcore punk memoir and as a valuable message to souls navigating through an overly materialistic and woefully self\u2013absorbed \u201cme first\u201d modern society.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-family: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\u201cIf you\u2019ve ever found yourself unable to turn away from witnessing an accident, crash or natural disaster, you\u2019ll read An American Demon straight through, like I did. \u00a0Jack Grisham\u2019s memoir is as original as it is horrifying. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t put it down.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 James Frey, bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimbys.com\/blog\/readings\/jack-grisham-demon\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Quimbys.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Quimby&#8217;s Monstrous Achievement : Jack Grisham Reads From His New Memoir An American Demon 5\/14 An American Demon\u00a0is\u00a0Jack Grisham\u2019s story of depravity and redemption, terror and spiritual deliverance. 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