T Philly Loyd loves fat chicks and cheap beer, though not necessarily in that order. He has worked for Forbes and McGraw Hill, both times running for his life as if waking up from a nightmare. His dream is to one day move to Hollywood, dig up Hank Chinaski, and take home a Razzie. Until then, he lives with his mom in Dumbass, Texas. Titles available at Amazon.com.
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Chris Hlad is a SoCal native who enjoys surfing, sailing, and dumbing-down his brain every chance he gets. By day Chris works for corporate America because, quite frankly, he is a sadist. By night, he lives the life of a worst-selling author.
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Michael Allen Rose is a writer, performance artist, and musician living in Chicago, IL. He is the founder and artistic director of RoShamBo Theatre, and releases industrial music under the pseudonym Flood Damage. Find out more about Michael at GerbilProbe.com. Find Michael’s books on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.
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Robert Burton Robinson is a true master of Flash, and one of the most proficient flasher in the business today. He is the author of eleven novels and many more short stories. Find out more about Robert at RobertBurtonRobinson.com.
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John Rachel is a bipolar humanist torn between Buddhism and narcissism. He enjoys cooking, mountain climbing, and traveling. Especially traveling. To date, he has been run out of 33 countries, and is currently working on his 34th. Find out more about John and his weirding ways at JDRachel.com.
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Barry Goldstein is a degenerate gambler masquerading as a financial analyst. Retired from Wall Street now, he wanders the streets of Las Vegas and Reno, always looking for a good card game and a well-endowed tranny to keep him company. Barry lives in a van down by the river.
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After spending a long and painful career in corporate America, Ree Miller decided to write about what she knows best: sitting on her butt. Since then, she has written two novels: Butts in the Seat, and her other passion, Butts on the Bar Stool. Find out more about Ree Miller at mmcwordsetc.wordpress.com.
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American writer Chuck Palahniuk is best known for creating novels that include ‘Fight Club,’ ‘Choke’ and ‘Lullaby.’ Palahniuk faced early rejection for his dark and satiric writing, but persevered to write Fight Club, which was published in 1996. Check out Chuck on his website, ChuckPalahniuk.net.
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Besides being an award-winning writer, Mia Couto is a j
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. See more about Kurt Vonnegut at Vonnegut.com.
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing. His novel Infinite Jest was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best novels between 1923 and 2005. More about DFW…
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Charles Bukowski is one of America’s most outrageous authors of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most prolific too. Bukowski was born in Germany but raised in Los Angeles. Find out more about Bukowski on the website, Bukowski.net.
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Carlton Mellick III is the Wonderland Book Award-winning author of over 45 novels, including Quicksand House, Bio Melt, Cuddly Holocaust and Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, among others. Mellik is the master of the genre known as Bizarro Fiction. See more about Mellik at CarltonMellick.com.
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Jake Wickenhofer lives in West Virginia. He is an IT Security Engineer for the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the author of Make Money Selling Pokemon Cards and The Concrete King. You can check out both books at Goodreads.com.
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Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. See the Tobias Wolff Author Page at Amazon.com.
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Sabrina Orah Mark grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from Barnard College, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the book The Babies. See books by Sabrina at Amazon.com.
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Hunter S.Thompson was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. Born and raised in Louisville, Ky, his books include Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among others. See Thompson’s Author Page at Amazon.com.
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Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle, is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published fourteen novels and more than 100 short stories. See his Author Page at Amazon.com.
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Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he still lives with his family. A graduate of the University of Florida, at age 23 he joined The Miami Herald as a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the newspaper’s weekly magazine. See Carl’s Author Page at Amazon.com.
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel. See more about Dostoyevsky at Goodreads.com.
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James Thurber is one of America’s all-time leading humorists. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times. See more about James Thurber at ThurberHouse.org.
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Christopher Moore was born in Toledo, Ohio. He is the son of a highway patrolman and a saleswoman. Chris briefly attended Ohio State University before fleeing the Midwest for sunny California to attend the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.Find out more at ChrisMoore.com.
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Mindy McGinnis is the author of Not A Drop To Drink and In A Handful of Dust, a post-apocalyptic survival duology, as well as A Madness So Discreet, a Gothic historical thriller which was a 2016 Edgar Award Winner. Find out more about Mindy at MindyMcginnis.com.
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Daniel Soule was an academic, but the sentences proved too long and the words too obscure. Although Northern Ireland is where he now lives, he was born in England and raised in Byron’s home town, which the bard hated but Dan does not. Find out more about Daniel at LinkedIn.com.
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Richard Hennerley was born an army brat in Singapore where he learned to shoot the finger at the world. He now lives in Alicante, Spain, where he is still shooting his finger at the world. See Hennerley’s books on Amazon.com, and find out more about him on his LinkedIn Page.
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Ammar was born in Lake Jackson, Texas. His debut novel, Dark Guardian, was released in August, 2014. His second novel, Memories Of My Future, was released to tremendous success in July 2016. Find out more about Ammar at AmmarAhsenHabib.com. See his books at Amazon.com.
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Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. Her work has received the William L. Crawford Award and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia. See more about Sofia at SofiaSamatar.com. Find her books on Amazon.com and iTunes.
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Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John’s, Antigua, which is part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. See Jamaica’s books at Amazon.com and iTunes.
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Steven Fischer is a writer and medical student living in southern Wisconsin. When he’s not cracking open a textbook (or a patient’s thorax), he can be found exploring the Northwoods by bike, boat, or boot. Find out more about Steven at StevenBFischer.com.
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John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning once in 1980 for his novel The World According to Garp. Find out more at John-Irving.com.
Franz Kafka is renowned for his visionary and profoundly enigmatic stories that often present a grotesque vision of the world in which individuals burdened with guilt, isolation, and anxiety make a futile search for personal salvation. See more on Kafka at Kafka-online.info.
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Elizabeth Scher is a new writer who is full of potential, at least according to her mom. She started out in sketch writing that has branched out to essays that could potentially be turned into sketches, and so on… Check out Elizabeth’s Twitter page.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. Find out more about Celine at Wikipedia.org.
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Richard Hoffman is author of the memoirs Half the House, Love & Fury, and the winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize. A former Chair of PEN New England, he is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College. Find out more about Richard at RichardHoffman.org.
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Josh Karp is a journalist and writer who teaches at Northwestern University. His first book, A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever, won best biography of 2006 at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. See more about Josh at JoshKarpBooks.com.
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Jerry Stahl is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. A film adaptation followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role. Stahl has worked extensively in film and television. Find his books at Amazon.com.
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Clive La Pensée lives in Beverley after ‘emigrating’ from London to Yorkshire, via Germany. He divides his year between the rural tranquillity of the East Riding and the bustle and music, theatre and cabaret of Berlin. See Clive’s books at Amazon.com. Find out more about Clive at Clivelap.co.uk.
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Jon Conley is a writer and musician from Cleveland. His work can be found at places like Hobart, Bending Genres, and Hello Horror. Find him online @beachstav.
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Seth Fried is 29 years old. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Tin House, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and Vice. His short story collection, The Great Frustration, was released last year by Soft Skull Press. Sethfried.com
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Amina Gautier’s most recent collection of short stories, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press, 2016), won the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award. She has also written Now We Will Be Happy (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. AminaGautier.wordpress.com
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Bronwyn Mills’s books include Night of the Luna Moths and a fabulist novel, Beastly’s Tale. Her work appears in Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and she guest-edited the Turkish issue of Absinthe: New European Writing. BronwynMills.org
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Samuel J. Adams is an MFA candidate in fiction at Bowling Green State University. His recent fiction appears in New World Writing and Rubbertop Review. You can follow him on Twitter: @Bib_Zone
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Nate Waggoner is the editor-in-chief of The-Tusk.com. His writing has appeared on the Barrelhouse blog, Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, in The “Loose Lips” literary parody anthology from Grand Central Publishing, and elsewhere. Natewagg.com
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Brian Auspice exists in an impermeable void between time and space. Auspice’s novella entitled “Deep Blue” was published by Eraserhead Press as part of their Bizarro Author Series. Get your copy of Deep Blue at Amazon.com.
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After twenty years trembling on the brink of rock stardom and fifteen years working at record companies, Ted Myers left the music business—or perhaps it was the other way around. He is now determination to make his mark as an author. Find out more about Ted Myers…
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Hermann Hesse was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Find out more about Herman Hesse…
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Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was a man both brilliant and controversial. Hamsun’s work spans more than 70 years. Find out more about Knut Hamsun…
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Robert Crumb’s career began in 1968 when he published his first underground comic book, Zap Comix. He is best known for his Keep On Truckin’ strip, and comics featuring Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural. Find out more about the artist at the Crumb Newsletter.
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John Hughes is best known for the movies he made. He specialized in coming-of-age movies, gaining fame in the 1980s with such well-known films as The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Although a famous Hollywood director, he actually began his career as a writer for National Lampoon magazine in the 1970s.
Seattle writer Jason M. Thornberry’s work appears in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Broadkill Review, Harbor Review and elsewhere. Jason received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Seattle Pacific University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. He lives with his wife in Seattle—and he’s hard at work on his first novel.
Although most famous for his movies, Woody Allen is also a talented jazz musician and acclaimed writer of prose as well. IN fact, Allen began his career as a writer, penning material for television in the 1950s alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. Find out more about Woody Allen at the JewishVirtualLibrary.org..
Ernest Hemingway needs no introduction. A member of the Lost Generation, Hemingway grew up in Illinois, but spent his life all over the world, with homes in both Cuba and Key West. Ernest Hemingway blew his brains out in 1961, in what seems to have become a family tradition.
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