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February 10, 2015
Show Me Your Shelves: Brian Alan Ellis
Say what you like about Facebook, but it’s a great place to meet awesome people. One day a book popped up on my feed. The title caught my eye: The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow. …
I showed Gabino Iglesias my shelves over at Bizarro Central. Shit got weird.
February 7, 2015
Book Review: 'More Wreck More Wreck' by Tyler Gobble | Brian Alan Ellis
Texas poet Tyler Gobble is so crazy for Swayze that he named his latest collection twice.
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More Wreck More Wreck reads like the American dream if the American dream consisted of rainbows and astronaut helmets and Chicken McNuggets.
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Gobble is like Peter Pan with a really impressive beard whose talents lay in his poise, his optimism, and the playful exuberance in which he uses language:
You’re bound to get knifed at some point, a man on a bench says.
A bottle rocket flared from the dark.
I’m not afraid of knives or humans or fireworks!
I have been collecting my whole life!
Switchblades and Freds and Firecrackers.
What if he grabs a stick of butter by accident?
And when I come to, he’s made pancakes out of life’s terrible confusion.
January 26, 2015
Two Stories
Better still: She is a potted plant in a lonely corner, all dusty and wilting but somehow still capable of lasting another day.
Got two shorties up at Mark Cronin’s new lit site, The Heavy Contortionists. Boom.
January 24, 2015
KOOL-AID (An excerpt from Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty) by Brian Alan Ellis
I kept eyeing her skates. I imagined her jerking me off while wearing them, rolling the plastic wheels up and down my shaft until I came everywhere. Then I thought of her crushing my face with them, like Heather Graham does to that asshole in Boogie Nights. I wanted my blood and come to mix. I wanted to make Kool-Aid magic.
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Pre-order a specially-priced digital version of Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty now!
January 22, 2015
Chaos Questions #8 – Brian Alan Ellis | ENCLAVE
Took Sheldon Lee Compton’s Chaos Questions challenge over at Enclave, and this happened:
January 20, 2015
The Unknown Show with Sarah Gerhard, Bill Lessard, and Brian Alan Ellis
An interview series hosted by Bud Smith that talks to writers, artists, muscians. This weeks guests are: Sarah Gerhard, author of Binary Star Bill Lessard, winner of TheNewerYork’s Beurecratic Writing Contest Brian Alan Ellis, author of King Shit
Had a great time talking with Bud Smith about Dave Mustaine, professional wrestling, and flaming KISS toothbrushes, among other important things. Listen now!
January 17, 2015
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty
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!
You can now PRE-ORDER the digital version of my new story collection at a special price, which means you can buy it now for half-off the regular price and on Friday, February 13 it will magically appear on your Kindle or phone or whatever the hell thing you use to read shit on. Strangely, it will also be auto-delivered to the Gameboy you had in 5th grade, as well as your younger sibling’s Etch A Sketch you broke but lied about breaking that same year. Magic realism.
You can also ENTER TO WIN the paperback on Goodreads!
Check out the OFFICIAL BOOK TRAILER, directed by Andrew Seward and featuring music by Strange Lords:
Some cool-ass people blurb’d the book:
“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 thirty 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
Available 2/13/2015
January 13, 2015
shootinitpodcast:
Shootin’ It | Episode 83: “Brian Alan Ellis...
Shootin’ It | Episode 83: “Brian Alan Ellis & Christoph Paul (Live)”
In part two of the live special, Jayme and Mike talk to authors Brian Alan Ellis and Christoph Paul. In the midst of all that they also face technical difficulties with the hotline.
January 12, 2015
persona-nongrata:
thatlitsite:
At 8:00PM EST. tonight author...
At 8:00PM EST. tonight author Jayme Karales and stand up comedian Mike Malkiewicz will be talking to 12 of the hottest indie talents working today.
Alexandra Naughton, Author of I Will Always Be Your Whore
Brian Alan Ellis, Author of The Mustache He’s Always Wanted But Could Never Grow
Christoph Paul, author of Great White House
Rich Vos, stand up comedian (featured on Opie & Anthony and Last Comic Standing)
Austin Bosley, director of Dismembering Christmas
Steven Ye, director of Miley Cyrus
Aaron Novy, artist and Christmas Valley inhabitant
The Degenerates [Jack Viera/Brandi Martinez/Dylan Fooster/Hans Lam Barboza], comedic social media troupe
Gary “Gearbear” Miller, podcast personality
Listen/watch tonight!
I’ll be talking with Jayme Karales and Mike Malkiewicz on The Shootin’ It Podcast tonight, along with literary heartthrobs Alexandra Naughton and Christoph Paul. Comedian Rich Vos will also be on there, as well as other nominees for Best Guest of 2014. Tune in LIVE at 8 PM EST to hear me vie for sympathy votes using a Virgin Mobile flip phone from 2008.
January 9, 2015
shootinitpodcast:
Shootin’ It with Jayme K. | Episode 52 -...
Shootin’ It with Jayme K. | Episode 52 - “Brian Alan Ellis”
In this episode ‘King Shit’ author Brian Alan Ellis stops by and talks Florida life, reporting on heavy metal bands, being a *legal* member of the KISS army, and writing influences.
My apologies—the audio is a little grainy this week. All will be repaired next week for The Super Show.
This nervous-seeming dude in the bathtub who wrote the facial hair book and really likes KISS is honored to be included in the top 14 finalists list for The Shootin’ It Podcast Best Guest of 2014 poll, along with Michael J Seidlinger, Alexandra Naughton, Scott McClanahan, Christoph Paul, Rich Vos and a few others. Please vote for your favorite here!
