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May 15, 2014
Brian Alan Ellis - Fiction
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
The insanely awesome Meg Tuite interviewed me and ran three of my stories in the latest issue of Connotation Press. Totally stoked and honored, for realzies.
May 14, 2014
King Shit is now Goodreads-legit. June 2014. Add...
King Shit is now Goodreads-legit. June 2014. Add it:
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@69thattempt needs...
@69thattempt needs everyones aid! She survived a hit and run and is awaiting surgery. So awful. this is her gofundme page, plz help signal boost and donate! #upthepunx http://www.gofundme.com/95d1fk
I don’t personally know this girl but we have a ton of mutual friends and I think y’all should support her in any way possible!
May 11, 2014
"Kira's Beard Will Kick Your Ass" by Brian Alan Ellis now live @ CROSSED OUT MAGAZINE
My latest story, “Kira’s Beard Will Kick Your Ass,” is now live via Crossed Out Magazine. A story about a kick-ass woman with a kick-ass beard. A story to make a mother proud.
Kira has a kick-ass beard. It’s like a fuzzy bundle of awesome roundhouse kicked her in the face. It’s what she’ll be remembered for. No doubt about it. The possibilities of having a kick-ass beard like hers are endless. I’ve tried counting them and it’s no use. Endless.
Kira wanted a beard ever since she was six. She saw a ZZ Top video on MTV and it was all over. She thought it was the coolest and wondered why woman didn’t have beards. It was a big concern. Soon Kira started drawing beards on pictures of woman she’d see in books and magazines. Her Mom would ask why she put hair on Cinderella’s face with crayon and Kira would say, “Because it makes Cinderella a bad-ass bitch.”
Read the rest now @ http://www.crossedoutmagazine.org/
May 3, 2014
thatlitsite:
Shootin’ It with Jayme K. - Episode 48: “Scott...
Shootin’ It with Jayme K. - Episode 48: “Scott McClanahan (Part 1)”
Hill William author Scott McClanahan stops by to talk about his most recent book, odd human habits, societal taboos, the controversy surrounding The Tournament of Books, and what led to his writing career.
Hill William was published by New York Tyrant in 2013.
May 2, 2014
Samantha Eliot Stier interviews Brian Alan Ellis
http://www.sprylit.com/behind-the-words-brian-alan-ellis/
The super talented Samantha Eliot Stier interviewed by dumb ass for Spry Literary Journal. Check out all the deep shit I had to say about Honey Boo Boo and Buzzfeed quizzes.
April 30, 2014
Cover art preview for King Shit, my upcoming...
Cover art preview for King Shit, my upcoming “novelette” illustrated by Waylon Thornton. Summer 2014. Yummy.
April 23, 2014
Review: Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria | Brian Alan Ellis
Juliet Escoria is a witchy woman, and Black Cloud, her aptly titled debut collection of (autobiographical?) stories, punctures deep into the heart of drug and sexual abuse, and casts a harrowing spell on the reader that, like her characters, will not easily break:
We went to sleep, together but alone, that night. We did no eye gazing at all. Just stared at the backs of our own eyelids, an act that doesn’t take and gives nothing to no one.
This is not an Oprah Book Club selection. These are twelve soul-smashing vignettes, each prefaced by an ominous word: RESENTMENT, APATHY, DISGUST, REVENGE, and so on.
I reviewed Juliet Escoria's debut story collection, Black Cloud, for That Lit Site. The book is killer, and it comes out today from Civil Coping Mechanisms, so YOLO your ass on over to Amazon or something and get it: BUY KILLER BOOK HERE!
