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March 11, 2015
I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT’S...
I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT’S WORKING, I THINK: A READING TOUR makes its way to Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday, March 12, at Florida State University.
The event will be hosted at the Phyllis Straus Gallery, located in the Carnaghi Arts Building.
Award-winning Australian author, Oliver Mol will be reading from his forthcoming book, Lion Attack! (Scribe Publications). Oliver will be reading with local writers Brian Alan Ellis, Erin Hoover, and Steven Pérez.
7PM
March 7, 2015
I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT'S WORKING, I THINK: A READING TOUR w/ Oliver Mol, Brian Alan Ellis, Erin Hoover, and Steven Pérez!
I’M TRYING TO WRITE MY WAY OUT OF FEELING SAD AND IT’S WORKING, I THINK: A READING TOUR makes its way to Tallahassee, Florida, on Thursday, March 12, at Florida State University (The John R. Carnaghi Building)!
Check out the event page!
Thursday, March 12
7PM
Carnaghi Arts Building (FSU campus), 2214 Belle Vue Way, Tallahassee, FL
Award-winning Australian author, Oliver Mol will be reading from his forthcoming book, Lion Attack! (Scribe Publications). Here’s what folks have been saying about it:
“A crackling ball of energy and inventiveness.”—Luke Ryan, author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo
“I found myself believing the book itself had a soul, had fingers that were typing each letter as my eye landed upon it.”—Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls
“Oliver Mol is one of the most exciting writers I know. Lion Attack! is one of the most exciting books I know. It’s funny and it has short chapters and it has personality and there’s a story about a friend who jerked off with a pizza. I don’t think there’s anything more to say.”—Scott McClanahan, author of Hill William
“This is a magical dream of a book.”—Juliet Escoria, author of Black Cloud
“Mol travels a fine, deft line between Too Much Information and a disarming, ruthless honesty. Lion Attack! nails some of the longing, hilarity, tremulous hope and searing embarrassment of passing from boyhood to manhood … This book will drag you every which way.”—Margo Lanagan, author of Sea Hearts
“Written in skilfully pared-back prose, Lion Attack! is a bold status update on Australian grunge lit, logging in where Eric Dando’s Snail and Andew McGahan’s 1988 left off.”—Maxine Beneba Clarke, author of Foreign Soil
“Mol is stripping away conceit in favor of a new, fresh form of narrative.”—Michael J. Seidlinger, author of The Strangest
“It is honest, thoughtful, and funny. I implore you to read this book.”—Stacey Teague, author of takahē
“Oliver Mol’s voice gets inside your head. His book pulses and crackles with energy, at once sexy and suffused with yearning.”—David Carlin, author of Our Father Who Wasn’t There
Oliver will reading with local writers
Brian Alan Ellis
Erin Hoover
Steven Pérez
Oliver Mol is a Sydney-based writer. He is a staff writer at The Adventure Handbook. He is 26. He grew up between America and Australia. He has lived in Houston, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. He was the recipient of a 2014 ArtStart Grant, the co-winner of the 2013 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and the recipient of a 2012 Hot Desk Fellowship. He has appeared at Emerging Writers Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. He has read creative nonfiction at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He has interned at The Lifted Brow, was a fiction editor at Voiceworks and is part of the Stilts Collective. His debut book “Lion Attack!” will be out through Scribe Publications early 2015. He is excited about life.
Brian Alan Ellis lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the author of The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow, 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living, King Shit (with Waylon Thornton), and Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty. His writing has appeared in Juked, Crossed Out, Zygote in My Coffee, Monkeybicycle, DOGZPLOT, Conte, Sundog Lit, Connotation Press, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HTMLGIANT, The Heavy Contortionists, That Lit Site, Diverse Voices Quarterly, flashquake, Revolution John, Out of the Gutter, Spry, NAP, The Next Best Book Blog, Entropy, The Round Up Writer’s Zine, Gravel, and Atticus Review, among other places, and was also adapted and performed by the Buntport Theater Company in Denver, Colorado.
http://brianalanellis.tumblr.com/
Erin Hoover is a poet living in Tallahassee, Florida, with work published in Best New Poets 2013, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, Redivider, and Sugar House Review. She has an MFA from University of Oregon and is currently working toward a PhD from Florida State University, where she edits The Southeast Review in addition to volunteering for VIDA. Before moving to Florida, Erin worked as a communications director in New York City and co-founded Late Night Library, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining book culture and supporting authors early in their careers.
March 4, 2015
The Great 2015 Indie Press Preview
I find myself overwhelmed yet excited about the year ahead, one that is sure to be timestamped by an amazing offering from the world of indie press, and there’s this insane idea too, the one that’s…
Check out my picks in The Great 2015 Indie Press Preview over at Electric Literature! Lots of good-ass books to read! Wooooo! Reading!
Also, watch this: http://youtu.be/DyIHOTx7zxM
March 2, 2015
Hello Mary ~ Out of the Gutter Online
Stoked to have a story up at Out of the Gutter Online's Flash Fiction Offensive. “Hello Mary” is the story of a woman who runs her abusive boyfriend over with a car. Good family entertainment.
I busted his nose. Then he shoved me, called me every goddamn name, and so I went to leave and, get this, he starts crying! You believe that little bitch? I say, “Aw, poor baby want Mommy?” So he gets a handful of hair and sends me across the room. Then he knocked me around. I screamed my head off till he stopped, then put my clothes on and left, slamming the door real good on my way out.
I could hear Beastmaster yelling, “DON’T SLAM THE GODDAMN DOOR—FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!” You believe that, Mary? Beastmaster. That’s what I’ve started calling Jimmy’s drunk-ass mother. Son’s an abusive shithead and all she cares about is me slamming her damn door!
February 28, 2015
What the Hell Does Author Nathaniel Tower Listen To? by Brian Alan Ellis
Nathaniel Tower writes really odd and enjoyable stories, many of which are compiled in a wonderful book entitled Nagging Wives, Foolish Husbands. He’s great. I love him. But what’s even stranger th…
February 27, 2015
Brian Alan Ellis - What I Know About Clem - Juked
Short story by Brian Alan Ellis.
New story up at JUKED!
Clem is suspected to die any minute. In fact, many of our fellow employees finance a bi-annual fantasy Clem death pool, the stakes of which are higher than ever now that Clem has supposedly gone back on meth.
February 19, 2015
thatlitsite:Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty by...
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty by Brian Alan Ellis (Official Book Trailer, 2015)
February 17, 2015
InkBitten: Book Trailer: Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty: Stories by Brian Ellis
Someone at Ink Bitten, a young adult book review site, saw the book trailer for Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty and wrote about it. Oh boy. They really dug the gnome.
February 15, 2015
SOMETHING GOOD, SOMETHING BAD, SOMETHING DIRTY by Brian Alan Ellis
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty reviewed at Verbicide Magazine!
February 13, 2015
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty: Stories: Brian Alan Ellis: 9780692312759: Amazon.com: Books
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty is officially out today. Get the paperback or download it to your Kindle/iPhone/Gameboy/Sega Game Gear/2008 Virgin Mobile flip phone purchased from a Dollar Tree before Obama was president:
A dude jumps out of a window; Halloween goes to Hell; a junk-sick redhead ransacks a wallet; a school teacher’s habit of leaving drawers open rattles her obsessive compulsive husband; a gory melodrama unfolds as a self-absorbed mother and her sadistic daughter vie for the love of a handsome con artist; two losers conjure bloodlust fantasies to pass the time; a severed body part resurrects to claim vengeance against a cunning, materialistic witch; a trailer park love triangle reaches its drunken precipice at a Sunday barbecue—just a few of the sometimes good, sometimes bad, and sometimes dirty attractions found in Brian Alan Ellis’s latest, aptly titled story collection, where bearded women, bloody tampons, online dating debacles, ornery waffle waitresses packing pistols, drunk Harry Dean Stanton look-a-likes dressed as Santa Claus, floating Mickey Mouse T-shirts, and lawn gnomes on fire all cast a harrowing glow!
"Hilarious and anguished, [this book] slashes beautifully through the surface layers of humanity - grinding into those deep crevices of our exquisite inadequacies. Not to be missed." - Meg Tuite, author of Bound by Blue
"Engaged, wise, suspenseful and exuberantly melancholy, [this book] skewers the underbelly of society, forging a path through darkened alleys and soulless, never-ending nights. [Ellis’s] flawed characters have secrets and fantasies, reckless hearts, and sharp tongues which reveal the messiness of life, family, and love in its myriad complex forms. A pointillist masterpiece." - Robert Vaughan, author of Addicts & Basements
"Full of jokes and woe, sorrow and exuberance, [this] is the kind of book you could accidentally drop out a 30-story window and it’d bounce back up into your hands for you to gladly read again. In short, all the elements you’ll need to fuel your word rocket." - Bud Smith, author of F-250
"If most of the current literary landscape resembles a room full of hipsters trying to be witty, [Ellis] is the guy sitting in a corner, giggling to himself as he caresses the knife in his pocket and outwits everyone without uttering a word. He is funny and weird and dangerous, and [this book] is his manifesto: a collection of sharp, sad, hilarious oddities that bring their own flask, violence, and STDs to the party, inviting you to do a few lines of blow off the toilet in the bathroom." - Gabino Iglesias, author of Gutmouth
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