Books by Brian Alan Ellis
Road Warrior Hawk: Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture
100 POEMS ABOUT Guns N’ Roses tattoos ★ Hulk Hogan ★ punk rock ★ Brie Larson ★ love ★ Channing Tatum ★ The Golden Girls ★ death ★ Whitney Houston ★ Tinder ★ Greta Gerwig ★ blood ★ sugar ★ sex ★ magic ★ Beyoncé ★ Star Wars ★ Sean Penn’s performance as a mentally handicapped person in that one movie ★ random superheroes ★ Netflix ★ goths ★ South Park ★ Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol ★ AC/DC t-shirts salvaged from dumpsters ★ Marilyn Manson ★ Ultimate Warrior ★ Jean-Claude Van Damme ★ Seal ★ Dr. Dre ★ Martin Shkreli ★ cats ★ Miami Vice ★ Prince ★ Twin Peaks ★ astrology ★ emo ★ Nicolas Cage ★ Steven Seagal ★ KISS ★ Forest Whitaker ★ depression ★ Kate Bush ★ Back to the Future 2 ★ Stone Cold Steve Austin ★ the entire Jamaican bobsled team from the movie Cool Runnings ★ Shia LaBeouf ★ Milli Vanilli ★ loneliness ★ childhood trauma ★ Drake ★ Jaws sequels ★ reality television ★ Bart Simpson ★ anxiety ★ Robocop ★ Cher ★ McDonald’s ★ nu metal ★ the 1995 Sinbad film Houseguest ★ Jet Li ★ Glen Frey ★ Chuck Norris ★ MTV ★ substance abuse problems ★ Belle and Sebastian ★ SoundCloud rappers ★ the Internet ★ gay dogs that worship Satan ★ people who talk like Vin Diesel AND SO MUCH MORE!
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Something Sexy, Something Stupid: The Next Three Books
This companion piece to Ellis’s previous omnibus, A Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week, features three out-of-print favorites—Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty, a story collection; Sexy Time in the Spook House, Oh Yeah!, a novella; and A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar, a collection of ramshackle poems and humorous non-fiction—as well as new and uncollected bonus material! // “[Ellis is] one of the best living writers in America.”—BUD SMITH, author of Teenager (TYRANT BOOKS)
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A Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week: The First Three Books
Compiling two critically acclaimed novellas, 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living and King Shit (with illustrator Waylon Thornton), and an equally lauded short-story collection, The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow, A Drunken Heap of Trouble Every Week shows you—“…with a violent, sex-crazed lowbrow majesty...”—just why Brian Alan Ellis has been called “a master of the short, sharp prose from the gutter,” with a special preface by Ben Tanzer, as well as introductions by Gabino Iglesias, Bud Smith, and Brian Alan Ellis himself!
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Easy Rider II: Sleazy Driver(s)
by Brian Alan Ellis, Tex Gresham, KKUURRTT
Two writers embark on cross-country road trip disguised as a fake book tour in order to bring their friend drugs.
(THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FILM EASY RIDER)
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Bad Poet: Poems
100 BAD POEMS ABOUT the pursuit of empty validation ★ waiting tables at restaurants ★ astrology ★ Brie Larson ★ love ★ flip phones ★ death ★ Carly Rae Jepsen ★ therapy ★ half-eaten bowls of refrigerated breakfast cereal ★ blood ★ sugar ★ sex ★ magic ★ what to do when confronting dead squirrels on the sidewalk ★ prison pen pals ★ Netflix ★ goths ★ professional wrestling ★ Danzig ★ Twitter ★ the “I’m no Superman” part from the theme song to the hit TV show Scrubs ★ loneliness ★ compulsively repeating the phrase “nightmare person” while self-reflecting in the shower ★ smoking weed laced with dog hair ★ childhood trauma ★ junk food ★ spiritually identifying as the Pigeon Lady from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ★ anxiety ★ Facebook ★ creepily stalking 7-Eleven parking lots at night while wearing a trench coat and drinking a Slurpee ★ Uber ★ nightmares where you’re just watching TV with your stepdad ★ social distancing ★ ageing ★ substance abuse problems ★ the latest version of Microsoft Office ★ slow motion videos of trust falls gone horribly wrong ★ semi-shitty bicycles ★ tearing up during the cornier Rocky movies ★ chasing Jell-O shots with warm cans of PBR on the fourth of July ★ severely depressed giraffes ★ wet dreams about being mauled by dogs at Toys ’R Us ★ smiling knowingly while getting buried under burning piles of trash AND SO MUCH MORE!
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The House of Vlad Press No Frills Sampler #2
by Brian Alan Ellis, Shy Watson, Noah Cicero, Jon Lindsey, Kevin Sterne, Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, Sophie Jennis, Joshua Dalton
House of Vlad Press present yet another cheap Petri dish of tasty outsider lit courtesy of Jon Lindsey, Shy Watson, Noah Cicero, Brian Alan Ellis, Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, Sophie Jennis, Joshua Dalton and Kevin Sterne!
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The House of Vlad Press No Frills Sampler #1
by Bud Smith, Sam Pink, Brian Alan Ellis, Noah Cicero, Rebekah Morgan, Justin Grimbol, Homeless xoxo
House of Vlad Press present a cheap Petri dish of tasty outsider lit courtesy of Sam Pink, Bud Smith, Noah Cicero, Brian Alan Ellis, Rebekah Morgan, Justin Grimbol, and Homeless!
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Three More Books: Something to Do with Sadness, Laughter, Pie & Failure (+Self-Hate)
Three More Books, the final omnibus in the 2013-2018 Brian Alan Ellis trilogy, features Failure Pie in a Sadness Face, new and selected stories, Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel, and an expanded version of Sad Laughter, “A Totally Unessential and Demotivational Guide to Reading, Writing, and Publishing,” along with bonus interviews and essays!
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