Full Of It: The Birth, Death, and Life of an Underground Newspaper

by Tim Hall

In the mid-1990s in New York's gritty East Village, a group of artists, activists, and dreamers come together to create the Troglodyte, a freewheeling, anarchic newspaper in the spirit of the underground press of the 1960s. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, tensions explode into outright hostility, as two camps form and fight for the hearts and minds of the neighborhood.

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2009

About the author

Fall 2013--my first mystery, DEAD STOCK, has been published by Cozy Cat Press. Available at Amazon for Kindle or paperback.

Previously, Journalist, independent author and publisher. Two novels, HALF EMPTY and FULL OF IT, and two collections of stories, TRIUMPH OF THE WON'T and ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER.

My style is something I call Screwball Tragedy, finding the humor in pain and the ambivalence in redemption. Love, lust, and loss; conflict and confusion. Writing and reviews have appeared on Chicago Public Radio and in the Chicago Reader, NY Press, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes Traveler, Time Out Chicago, Sheridan Sun, Texas Pan-American. Member of the Outsider Writers Collective, an international writers' organization with more than 700 members. http://timhallbooks.com

Reviews

[Jason Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tim Hall’s Full of It: The Birth, Death, and Life of an Underground Newspaper (Undie Press, 2008) takes place in New York’s East Village in the mid-‘90s, and centers on a group of people that run the Troglodyte, a free newspaper. According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, the word troglodyte refers to a “person living in seclusion,” like a cave dweller. And really, said term classifies several characters in the book, a book that is quite good.

Read the rest in the December 2008 issue of decomP .

[Kristin Fouquet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply that I started it last night, finished it this afternoon, and bought a copy for a friend shows the level of gusto I have for this book. Hall uses his wit and concise storytelling to capture a demimonde of time and place. He beautifully details the difficulty of running an underground newspaper, the frustrations of living in New York, and the universal obstacles of sustaining relationships of all types. This novel satisfies. Thankfully, I'm still under its influence.

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

A breezy, fun read; a mash note to what seems more and more like a bygone era of underground newspapers, not to mention a nearly pre-historic, pre-dot com New York City; and maybe best of all, a great companion piece to Tim's previous novel, Half Empty.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

An inside look at an underground newspaper, but more a look into the thoughts and adventures of a young writer making his way in New York.

[Subhankar Das · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommend this.