Bigger Than Life at the Edge of the City - Paperback

by Gene Gregorits (Author)

Author Biography

Gene Gregorits was born in Enola, PA in 1976. From 1997 to 2004, he published Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal. His subcultural essays and interviews were collected in the book Midnight Mavericks (FAB Press, 2007), while his prose writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and literary anthologies.

In 2012 he founded Monastrell Books to self-publish his first novel, Dog Days, which became an underground phenomenon and garnered both attention and controversy. Subsequent works included Johnny Behind The Deuce (the remains of an aborted attempt to co-author with Lydia Lunch), Sex & Guts Anthology, Dog Days Volume Two, Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, Fishhook (a book comprised entirely of Facebook status updates), and Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas: The Untold Story (a long-form in-depth interview with producer Laila Nabulsi).

His novels have running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse, homelessness, and death. Early influences on his writing include Hubert Selby and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Much of his recent writing celebrates his beach life in Florida after escaping the soul-crushing urban blights of NYC, LA, Baltimore, and Detroit.