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February 27, 2014
AWP.I. and House of Vlad Productions present The Mustache He’s...
AWP.I. and House of Vlad Productions present The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow, twenty-one feel-good stories by Brian Alan Ellis, author of 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living, available NOW!
February 21, 2014
"I’m afraid I wasn’t much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous."
- Conrad Aiken (via theparisreview)
February 20, 2014
The Great 2014 Indie Press Preview
Behold the Great 2014 Indie Press Preview, a compendium of some of the most exciting titles of this year and curated by more than a dozen indie press authorities.
Check out my sweet picks via The Great 2014 Indie Press Preview, among other sweet picks. These are books you should read by authors and presses you should support. These are amazing books published by humans who don’t make a lot of money and are still putting forth excellent work while having to work shitty jobs in order to pay off student loans for degrees they can’t use. They probably self-medicate and don’t get enough sleep. These are our people.
February 19, 2014
Grimy Bizarro Masterpiece
Grundish and Askew by Lance Carbuncle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Lance Carbuncle definitely has a way with words—he doesn’t write them; he kicks and fondles before splattering them across the page in garishly oozing detail—and his grimy Bizarro masterpiece, Grundish and Askew skull-fucks your brain before leaving it ass-up in a semen/booze-filled kiddie pool outside a Mexican porno theater. Actually, such a pool outside a porno theater does not exist in this book. Also, it isn’t set in Mexico (though a dead Mexican does play a factor). There is, however, a lot of humor and heart to be had. The title characters, as well the chain-smoking aunt who dreams about dead dogs, are so intriguingly bat-shit that you can’t help but follow their insanity to the bitter, blood-soaked end. Think an episode of Squidbillies directed by Tarantino. Think Of Mice and Men adapted by John Waters. Think What-the-fuck-did-I-Just-read?
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"I stood sweating on the street with vague and unguided thoughts about being an architect who knows..."
- Sam Pink, Rontel
February 12, 2014
February 10, 2014
Preview my story collection, The Mustache He’s Always...
Preview my story collection, The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow, with a FREE download of “Cutter,” my Valentine’s-themed tragi-comedy: CLICK HERE!
February 9, 2014
"Funny how books put themselves into your hands when they wanted you to read them."
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“The Cures for Love,” from Charles Baxter’s Believers
