'more COOL JUSTICE,' a 2nd collection of narrative storytelling about cops, courts, poets, writers, missing persons, musicians, boxers, other extraordinary personae, real douche bags & victims of the so-called justice system:

Update, 8-10-14:

Now @AmazonKindle

Other EBook venues to follow, with print edition scheduled for September 2014.

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‘BLUE NOTE,’

published 5-27-13, led to clemency hearing and freedom

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IceBox Publishing, Westport, CT

Introduction by Ravi Shankar

Prologue by Ondi Timoner

Foreword by Andrew Kreig

Cover design / more COOL JUSTICE website by Carin Handsun, iweb results

Cover photo courtesy of

Chloe Poisson

and The Hartford Courant:

Bonnie Foreshaw Released

Journalist Andy Thibault waves to Bonnie Foreshaw (off camera) after Foreshaw inquired, “Where’s Andy?” during a press conference at Bridebrook Park in Niantic minutes after Foreshaw was released from nearby York Correctional after serving 27 years of a 45-year sentence for the murder of Joyce Amos. Thibault was instrumental in Foreshaw being granted clemency after uncovering a memo written 24 years ago by then-public defender Jon Blue about the mishandling of Foreshaw’s legal defense. With Thibault are author Wally Lamb, a friend and supporter of Foreshaw, and Wilburt Guy a friend, supporter and former co-worker of Foreshaw. (Photo courtesy of Hartford Courant / Cloe Poisson, November 15, 2013)

Documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner of Interloper Films follows up on her 1994 work “The Nature of the Beast” during Bonnie Foreshaw’s clemency hearing at a Niantic jail on Oct. 9, 2013.
- Back cover photo by Bob Thiesfield

Interloper Films

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What they’re saying about 'more COOL JUSTICE'

“No one escapes Andy Thibault’s fierce gaze and blistering pen – no one. So, here’s fair warning to all who abuse their power, overreach their office, dip their hands in the till, violate the public’s trust, suppress evidence, obstruct justice, or perhaps merely look the other way: you’d best run for the hills when you hear him coming. This collection turns over the rocks so we can all see the squiggly mess beneath, and, in an era of shrinking media independence, proves there are still gumshoes who care about squashing those bugs.”

- Christine Palm, poet, writer & Communications Director, CT Permanent Commission on the Status of Women

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“Predictably courageous reporting”

Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair Special Correspondent

“I don’t even know how he found out about my case; I was sitting in an immigration cell waiting to find out when I was going to be deported for my post 9-11 [so called] ‘anti-American’ poetry when I heard about the article. It was during a phone conversation with my wife, it was the first time since my arrest that I could feel the hope I heard in her voice as she read it to me. Even though we hadn’t ever met, Andy wrote the article like we had been lifetime friends. The article garnered so much attention that the immigration judge I eventually faced commented on it in his closing by saying, ‘You could’ve been a little easier on us.’ Since then I have had the pleasure of knowing this tenacious, truth driven brother I proudly call my friend.”

- IYABA MANDINGO, painter, actor, poet, playwright & author of ‘unFRAMED,’ ‘41 Times,’ ‘Sins of My Fathers’

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“When they came up with the term ‘muckraker’ a little over a century ago, they had Andy Thibault in mind. Unafraid, even eager to take on the highest authorities, as outraged by an injustice to anyone as he would be as if it had been done to his best friend, Thibault sounds the alarm and runs with it anytime he finds an individual or a family being chewed up by a corporate or governmental tractor. His columns are written with energy, passion, grace, and style. They are about events in Connecticut, but I commend them to anyone who loves freedom and wants all human beings treated with decency and respect.”

-PAUL LEVINSON, PhD, Fordham Prof & author of ‘New New Media’ and ‘The Plot to Save Socrates’

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“Andy Thibault writes in the tradition of the great American dissenters. He’s tough, he’s fearless, he’s factually scrupulous. He’s a champion of underdogs and a deflater of overdogs. He’s a defender of free speech in an age of the pile-on and the slap-down.”

- Tim Dumas, author, ‘A Wealth of Evil – The True Story of the Murder of Martha Moxley in America’s Richest Community’

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“Andy Thibault inspires the best in us because he does not fight for justice as just some abstraction, but for real, ready to jump into the fray and expose the lies of the powerful. It’s an honor to know him and a true pleasure to have this new book documenting his important work. He’s relentless, funny as hell, incisive in his analysis, deeply sympathetic, and, yes, cool!”

- Jon Andersen, Quinebaug Valley CC Prof and author of ‘Stomp and Sing’

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Should I ever be framed and sent to rot in one of America’s prisons, I hope there will be some way I can get a note out to Andy Thibault. I think every reader of more COOL JUSTICE will feel the same thing. Thibault’s passion for justice, his dogged determination, and his considerable gift as a journalist make him one of the true enemies of this nation’s all-too-abundant corruption and injustice. This book heartened me, because it proves there are still journalists who care more about the truth than smooth approval at corporate cocktail parties.

-- Brent Buell, Author of RAPTUROUS, prison reform advocate and theater producer

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Andy Thibault's actions work to protect our First Amendment rights and to uncover those governmental and agency actions which need to be brought to light, reminds me of the work done an epidemiologist always ready to act before a virus becomes a health threat, or a surgeon who knows exactly how to extract a tumor. We are lucky to have someone watching our backs who is as dedicated and unrelenting as Andy.

Bessy Reyna

former Hartford Courant opinion columnist

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BLUE NOTE
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