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Draft:Patrick O'Neil (author)

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Patrick Sean O’Neil is an American author of three memoirs: Anarchy at the Circle K (2022), Gun, Needle, Spoon (2015), and Hold-Up (2013). He is the co-author of Writing Your Way To Recovery (with James Brown) and contributed to PEN America’s The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison.

Early life and education: edit

Patrick Sean O’Neil was born on October 14, 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin. His father was M.I.T. professor of linguistics Wayne O’Neil.[1]

O’Neil attended the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated in 1979 with a BFA in film. In 2006 he attended Antioch University Los Angeles’ Master of Fine Arts in Writing program and earned an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in nonfiction prose.[2]

Career edit

In 1982 O’Neil was a touring roadie for the punk bands Dead Kennedys and T.S.O.L. and in 1984 he became the road manager[3] for Dead Kennedys, Flipper, and Subhumans.[4] He stopped working with Dead Kennedys after their last show with the lineup of Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, and D.H. Peligro[5] at U.C. Davis in 1986.[6]

In 1986 O’Neil worked as an artist for the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. O’Neil collaborated with the artist Winston Smith[7] on the album cover for Bedtime For Democracy, and was present when the police raided[8] the offices of Alternative Tentacles in search of the Frankenchrist/H.R. Giger "Work 219: Landscape XX" (also known as Penis Landscape) poster[9] in response to a “distributing harmful matter to minors” charge against Alternative Tentacles from the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office[10].

O’Neil has publicly acknowledged that throughout his career in the music industry he was addicted to heroin[11]. In 1997 O’Neil was arrested by the San Francisco Police on multiple counts of armed robbery.[12] Awaiting trial in San Francisco County jail O’Neil attended a creative writing class[13] and began writing. 1998 O'Neil was convicted of two counts of robbery and sentenced to the California Department of Corrections.[14]

2001 O'Neil was released from prison[15] and began working in the recovery field as a drug and alcohol counselor.[citation needed] In 2006 he attended Antioch University Los Angeles and earned an MFA in Creative Writing.[2]

2016 California Governor Jerry Brown granted O’Neil a Governor's Pardon for his felony convictions.[16]

Books edit

  • Anarchy at the Circle K: On the Road with Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans, and… Heroin. Punk Hostage Press, 2022.[17][18]
  • Gun, Needle, Spoon. Dzanc Books, 2015.[19][20]
  • Hold-Up. 13e Note Editions, 2013. French, translated by Karine Chaunac.[21]

References edit

  1. ^ "Professor Wayne O'Neil, linguist and advocate for linguistics in education, dies at 88". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 2020. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  2. ^ a b Hamilton, Karen (2022-06-24). "Patrick O'Neil '08 - Common Thread". commonthread.antioch.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  3. ^ Norton, Justin (June 6, 2022). "Q&A: Patrick O'Neil On His 80s Hardcore Memoir Anarchy At The Circle K". Decibel. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
  4. ^ Glasper, Ian (2023-08-15). Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. PM Press. ISBN 978-1-62963-695-5.
  5. ^ Kreps, Daniel (2022-10-29). "D. H. Peligro, Dead Kennedys' Longtime Drummer, Dead at 63". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  6. ^ Punknews.org (2017-07-30). "Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy". www.punknews.org. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  7. ^ "Winston Smith". Winston Smith. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
  8. ^ Silverberg, Michael (2014-05-20). "The obscenity trial that made H. R. Giger an icon for punk rock and free speech". Quartz. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  9. ^ Feldman, Paul (1987-08-21). "Album Poster Not Pornographic, Defense Tells Jurors". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  10. ^ "Belated Apology From Attorney Who Prosecuted Dead Kennedys". MTV. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  11. ^ "The Regeneration of Patrick O'Neil". curbside splendor. 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  12. ^ York, Will (2023-03-02). Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age. SCB Distributors. ISBN 978-1-915316-06-6.
  13. ^ Waxmann, Laura (5 December 2017). "CCSF courses expand to include psychology, creative writing for incarcerated students". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  14. ^ DuShane, Tony (2015-07-14). "Prison saved punk rocker addict". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
  15. ^ "The Struggles of Reentry After Incarceration - Cultural Daily". culturaldaily.com. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
  16. ^ "Executive report on pardons, commutations of sentence and reprieves" (PDF). p. 273. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  17. ^ "Anarchy at the Circle K By Patrick O'Neil, 259 pgs. - Razorcake". Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  18. ^ "Anarchy At The Circle K By Patrick O' Neil". www.punkglobe.com. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  19. ^ Marshall, Lindsay (2015). "Ghost-Paved Road". American Book Review. 36 (5): 25–26. doi:10.1353/abr.2015.0099. ISSN 2153-4578. S2CID 146611327.
  20. ^ Boyd, Bailey (2015-07-04). "An Honest Trip: A Review of Gun, Needle, Spoon by Patrick O'Neil". Atticus Review. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  21. ^ "Meurtres, braquages, hérone et rock'n'roll : le cocktail polar qui tue ! La sélection noire de Philippe Blanchet". ROLLING STONE France. May 2013.
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