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Poppy Z. Brite

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in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States

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http://www.poppyzbrite.com/

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Horror, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite, now going by Billy Martin) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about his gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. He self-identifies almost completely as a homosexual male rather than female, and as of 2011 has started taking testosterone injections. His male name is Billy Martin.

He lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia prior to returning to New Orleans in 1993. He loves UNC basketball and is a sometime season ticket holder for the NBA, but he saves his greatest affection for his hometown football team, the New Orleans Saints.

Brite and husband Chris DeBarr, a chef, run a de facto cat rescue and have, at any ...more

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Due to going through a depressive episode now, I've been thinking about the first time I ever experienced chemical depression. I remember it very clearly, because it was so unlike anything else I'd ever felt. I was seventeen. I had just survived several terrible years at a school where other students told me daily how ugly, stupid, and worthless I was, but that didn't make me depressed. It made me Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.9 · 91,126 ratings · 4,442 reviews · 154 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lost Souls 3.89 avg rating — 16,469 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drawing Blood 4.02 avg rating — 9,594 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Corpse 3.75 avg rating — 10,228 ratings — published 1996 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories 3.91 avg rating — 5,286 ratings — published 1993 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liquor (Rickey and G-Man #2) 3.93 avg rating — 2,552 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nancy Holder (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 2,607 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courtney Love: The Real Story 3.64 avg rating — 2,283 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prime (Rickey and G-Man #3) 4.05 avg rating — 1,466 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories by Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author), Peter Straub (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 1,577 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crow: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite (Goodreads Author), James O'Barr (Created by) 3.70 avg rating — 1,439 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

tags: insomnia, night, sleep

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“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite

tags: evening, loneliness, night, reflection, torture

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“I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

tags: loneliness

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1st Quarter 2021 - Horror #2

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, 619p

6 votes, 46.2%

Little Eve by Catriona Ward, 288p

2 votes, 15.4%

The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North, 420p

1 vote, 7.7%

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, 416p

1 vote, 7.7%

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis, 320p

1 vote, 7.7%

Cabal by Clive Barker, 358p

1 vote, 7.7%

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, 316p

1 vote, 7.7%

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite, 416p

0 votes, 0.0%

The Black Fire Concerto by Mike Allen, 185p

0 votes, 0.0%

The Resurrectionists by Michael Patrick Hicks, 156p

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