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In this episode of Driftwood Conversations, Hilary Sloane sits down with fellow Z107.7 reporter Gabriel Hart — novelist, musician, and founder of the print-only literary magazine Beyond the Last Estate. Hart’s punk-noir novel On High at Red Tide challenges conventional crime fiction, resisting easy moral packaging in favor of psychological depth and institutional critique. Together they explore what punk and noir literature share at their core: a distrust of the center, a focus on outsiders, and a refusal to sentimentalize broken systems. The conversation moves through discipline, desert solitude, independent publishing, and the creative courage required to build work outside mainstream channels.
Gabriel’s book is “On High at Red Tide,” Pig Roast Publishing. The magazine is Beyond the Last Estate — beyondthelastestate.com. And his site is gabrielhart.net.
Hilary Sloane- Journalist and Photographer 