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Brian Alan Ellis

about

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Press, and is the author of several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018). His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Heavy Feather Review, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Fanzine, and HTMLGIANT. He lives in Florida.

Books

Bad Poet: Poems [House of Vlad, 2020]
Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture [House of Vlad, 2019]
Sad Laughter: A Totally Unessential and Demotivational Guide to Reading, Writing, and Publishing [Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018]
Something to Do with Self-Hate: A Novel [House of Vlad/Talking Book, 2017]
Failure Pie in a Sadness Face: New and Selected Stories [House of Vlad, 2017]
Something Sexy, Something Stupid: The Next Three Books [House of Vlad, 2015-2016]
A Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week: The First Three Books [House of Vlad, 2013-2014]

selected fiction

Mr. Scary [Talking Book]
Recently Added in Shit You Watched on Mom’s Cable When You Were Depressed While ‘Between Jobs’ and Living at Home in Your Early-to-Mid Twenties [BULL]
The ALF Period [Carte Blanche]
It Felt Like Love [Third Point Press]
Demented Racist Grandma [JMWW]
What I Know about Clem [Juked]
Rape Distance [Literary Orphans]
A Real Boyfriend [People Holding]
Aunt Jackie, Tony [Hypertext]
Certain Celebration, Jerry’s TV [Vol. 1 Brooklyn]
Delia Done Wrong [Spry]
The Problem with Helen [Gravel]
Facts about Freud [Monkeybicycle]
The Sailboat/Hatchet Painting [Conte]

SELECTED poetry

Ten Poems [Instant]
Six Poems [Hobart]
Three Poems [Last Exit]
OMG I Still Exist, and Other Poems [Secret Lovers]
Poem for Channing Tatum [Talking Book]
Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester [Yes, Poetry]
Three Poems [TL;DR]
Five Poems [Maudlin House]
Five Poems [Five:2:One]
Poem About the Time in High School My Buddies and I Went to See the Movie Batman and Robin [Talking Book]

SELECTED non-fiction

The Best of Chris Farley [Fanzine]
LOVE IN THE TIME OF TEXT, DON’T CALLERA: The Lost Sad Laughter Chapter [BULL]
TOP 10 BOOKS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HOPE TO ONE DAY PUBLISH [Talking Book]
NO BOOK BLURB, NO CRY: An Inspirational/Crazy Informative Guide to Proper Book Blurbag [X-R-A-Y]
I Self-Identify as These Books from 2016 (and Some from 2015) [The Collapsar]
Marry Bell, Fuck Biv, Kill Devoe [Queen Mob’s]
Hobbies Include… [Talking Book]
Book Review: Bridget Fonda by Elizabeth Ellen, The Collapsar]
10 Totally Awesome Stay-At-Home Activities to Do With Your Sexually Transmitted Disease [Reality Beach]
Academic Think-Piece about How Our Culture Went From Art Garbage (Last Tango in Paris) To Pop Garbage (Fifty Shades of Grey) But Written By Honey Boo Boo [Talking Book]
Academic Think-Piece about the Dumpster behind Where I Work [Talking Book]
Shoes of a Writer: Brian Alan Ellis [Shoes of a Writer]
Letter to Our Drunk-Ass Neighbor [The Driftless Area Review]
Grimestore Cowboy [Hobart]
Today I Am This Boring Apocalypse Posing For Hustler: Notes on New Books by xTx, Brandi Wells, and Andrea Kneeland [Revolution John]
Book Review: Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero [Heavy Feather Review]
Book Review: If I Would Leave Myself Behind by Lauren Becker [Gravel]
Book Review: Tollbooth by Bud Smith [Sundog Lit]
Book Review: Addicts & Basements by Robert Vaughan [HTMLGIANT]
The Indie Ink Runs Deep: Brian Alan Ellis [The Next Best Book Blog]
Book Review: Witch Piss by Sam Pink [CLASH]
Book Review: The Laughter of Strangers by Michael J. Seidlinger [Sundog Lit]

SELECTED INTERVIEWS

The Rumpus
Vol.1 Brooklyn
Entropy
Triangle House
Zero Point Fiction
BULL
Get Lit with Leza
The JDO Show
Meow Meow Pow Pow
Microcosmo
Rare Bird Lit
Only Human
Talking Book
Queen Mob’s Tea House
Dead End Follies
Hobart
The Other Stories

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