Bobby BlueJacket
Michael P. Daley is a writer and cultural historian. Daley’s work concerns politics, subcultures, crime, and art. His writing has appeared in publications by Anthology Editions , Sinecure Books, Pleasure Editions , Boo-Hooray , Frank151 , Challenger , and his own imprint First To Knock . He is a former counterculture archivist and political news editor.
Daley’s newest book is Echoes of a Natural World: Tales of the Strange & Estranged (First To Knock, 2020). In this collection of weird fictional meditations on nature, Daley compiled tales from 19th century French Decadents like Joris-Karl Huysmans and Jean Lorrain; a once lost occult story from the early 20th century; and short works from contemporary American authors. CrimeReads described the collection as the “missing link between Baudelaire and the Area X Trilogy, strange, beautiful, and bizarre as any
Daley’s previous books include Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa Underworld (First To Knock, 2018), an extraordinary true story of a teenaged killer and career thief turned Eastern Shawnee activist. Award-winning author and poet Ron Padgett called the book a “fascinating and richly detailed biography” and “an intimate portrait of [a] complex emotional and intellectual life.” Philip K. Dick Award-winner Jack Womack described BlueJacket as: “Insightful, angry, straightforward, reminiscent of t
Bobby BlueJacket