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Eryk Pruitt

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Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham, NC with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. His fiction appears in The Avalon Literary Review, Pulp Modern, Thuglit, and Zymbol, to name a few. In 2013, he was a finalist for Best Short Fiction in Short Story America and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes for 2014. His novel Dirtbags was published in April 2014, and HASHTAG will be published in May, 2015. A full list of credits can be found at erykpruitt.com.

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LOVE, LABOUR, AND THE ART OF REJECTION

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
So wrote Oscar Wilde over a century ago, in the preface of his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. This amuse-bouche almost seems out of place in a work that many consider a Victorian horror novel. Oscar Wilde was a man of wit and knew first-hand the fickle whim of societal tastes. He would spend the end of his life exiled from England after servin Read more of this blog post »

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“They wanted Jake dead for killing Chicken Bone?”
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“They wanted Jake dead for killing Chicken Bone?”
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“She was like a redneck Yoko Ono.”
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“They got another girl in Louisiana who robbed two college boys and put fish hooks in their ball sacks after stealing their car and all their money.”
― Eryk Pruitt, HASHTAG

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“The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat of leftovers, frozen peas and stale crumbs.”
― Tim Heaton, The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.

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