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​Daniel DiFranco creates a world that nicely draws back the curtain on the rock life that most people fantasize about. It’s an insightful and illustrative read.
- Bruce Warren Executive Producer of World Cafe on NPR Music
Panic Years is authentic, bighearted, and fun. The novel's tight pacing and uncynical approach to its subject matter capture the essence of a young group on the road—a trip to be savored, one gritty gig at a time.
- Foreword Reviews

PANIC YEARS

from Tailwinds Press 
August 2018​
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Be good.
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Be evil.
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Feed the monkey.
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Whatnow?!
​This is more than a great rock novel—it's a great novel about work, friendship, and making art against all odds.
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Dave Housley author of Massive Cleansing Fire and co-founder of Barrelhouse
DiFranco pulls you into the van and off you go on a rock 'n roll tour minus all the romanticized bullshit. Panic Years is loud, high as hell, and loves you back with a heart as big as an elusive white whale.
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​Bud Smith author of F250
you decide.

What's it about?

Fueled by positive online reviews and a minimum of introspection, Paul and his bandmates—beautiful Laney, hard-drinking Jeff, despairing drummer Gooch—soldier unquestioningly through a gruelling and open-ended quest to play gig after gig in the seamy nightclubs and questionable dive bars of indie-rock America. As the band stoically makes its calamitous way cross-country, its journey is struck repeatedly by theft, drug use, foot infections, gastrointestinal distress, crooked promoters, and the hatred of rival bands. In his earnestly deadpan account of the claustrophobic daily grind of life on the road, newcomer Daniel DiFranco has created a brutally realistic record—not only of the underground music scene, but of everyday existence in its purest form.

DANIEL DIFRANCO

PicturePhoto Credit Ellie Miller ©2017
Daniel DiFranco lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches English and music. An alum of Temple University and of the Community College of Philadelphia, he also has an MFA from Arcadia University. His work has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, LitroNY, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He is 1/3 of the podcast book.record.beer, a podcast of writer-musicians who talk art and cut a track. A full list of publications and other miscellany can be found at danieldifranco.com and @danieldifranco.

Playing in Those People  helps quell the loudness left over from writing.

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