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January 2, 2015
This Blog Will Change Your Life: These Things We Loved in 2014 Will Change Your Life.
Thank you Ben Tanzer for including me in this amazing list. It’s almost like The Iron Sheik himself put me in the camel clutch and humbled me, which is a high honor. Though I do feel slightly shut out by not being included in the “Books by handsome men with facial hair, bearded, and otherwise” category, then I see who is included and I’m all like, “Oh yeah.” Maybe next year. Regardless, this is a great list with lots of great people and great books and great things mentioned.
December 27, 2014
December 24, 2014
VOTE!
Made it to round 2! Starting to feel like Macho Man Randy Savage circa-Wrestlemania IV. Please vote for your fav There Will Be Words heartthrob here!
Also: Honored to be considered for the 2014 Shootin’ It Podcast Favorite Guest award alongside so many Internet greats like Michael J Seidlinger, Ben Tanzer, David S. Atkinson, Alexandra Naughton, Heiko Julien, and Scott McClanahan (already in the finals, that guy), among others, so start voting here!
December 16, 2014
December 10, 2014
PALM ROT Trailer
Trailer for my thesis animation ‘PALM ROT’ Music by Waylon Thornton Sound Design by Owen Granich-Young Bill played by Greg Tonner
Congratulations to King Shit-illustrator/guitar man Waylon Thornton, because a short film he did the music for just got accepted into Sundance! Waylon isn’t the type of guy to accept being accepted but this is pretty cool, so check it out!
December 8, 2014
The Round Up Writer's Zine: Flasher Edition, featuring "Haunted Alarm Clock" by Brian Alan Ellis!
Check out my story, “Haunted Alarm Clock,” in the “Flasher” edition of The Round Up Writer’s Zine!
December 6, 2014
A Conversation with Brian Alan Ellis | ENTROPY
A conversation between lovely author man Bud Smith and myself, with amazing artwork by Waylon Thornton!
December 2, 2014
Brian Alan Ellis
If I Would Leave Myself Behind , by Lauren Becker. Curbside Splendor Publishing. 120 pages. $14.95.
When writing fiction that is empathetic to common, emotionally trodden persons, comparisons to Raymond Carver and Amy Hempel can sometimes be an unfortunate inevitability. However Becker’s pithy, cut-glass prose stylin’ and profilin’ is really all her own, and If I Would Leave Myself Behind is an artful reawakening of the short-story form. Becker owns it. She is a champion for unique characters who hold no title.llis
November 30, 2014
Indie Spotlight: 'The Mustache He's Always Wanted But Could Never Grow: And Other Stories' by Brian Alan Ellis
In these twenty-one comically gut-wrenching stories—highlighting schemers, dreamers, losers, boozers, stolen televisions, professional wrestlers, self-mutilators, compulsive masturbators, shoe fetishists, and a dead cat named Johnny Thunders—BRIAN ALAN ELLIS delivers a…
November 27, 2014
TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog: Book Review: King Shit
One of the things I’m most thankful for, besides having an awesome girlfriend and two awesome cats, is that people I like and admire care enough about my writing to write about it themselves, especially when all I really write about are weird-ass people:
"Ellis’s straight forward approach to storytelling can be compared to that of Sam Pink and Charles Bukowski. His uncanny ability to humbly dress his characters in yesterday’s dirty, beer soaked, rumpled clothing and march them back and forth from place to place like it ain’t no big thang speaks directly to the insecurities in each of us. And the fact that this is the norm for these guys, that they think this is what life is and are living it the only way they know how, that’s fascinating to us."
Buy King Shit here!
