Gene Gregorits
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Justin Gene Gregorits (born November 5, 1976) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He founded and published Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal, that ran from 1997 to 2004. Subsequent works include Johnny Behind The Deuce, Sex & Guts Anthology, Sex & Guts 4, Midnight Mavericks, Dog Days: Volume One, Dog Days: Volume Two, Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, and Fishhook. Gregorits' most recent works have been described as having running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death.[1] He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline [2]
Bibliography[edit]
- Sex and Guts 4(2002)
- Midnight Mavericks: Reports From The Underground (2007)
- HATCHET JOB: The Gene Gregorits Reader (2012)
- Dog Days: Volume One (2012)
- Dog Days: Volume Two (2013)
- Johnny Behind The Deuce (2013)
- Sex and Guts Anthology (2013)
- Dog Days Omnibus (2013)
- Fishook Volume One (2013)
- The Portland Eight Mile (2014)
- Do You Love Me: The Gene Gregorits File (2014)
- The Portable Gene Gregorits (2014)
- Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Untold Story (2014)
- Intra-Coastal: One Year On St Pete Beach (Volume One) (2014)
- Stretch Marks (2015)
- Meet Me Down The Alley (2016)
- Bigger Than Life at the Edge of the City (2017)
- SPOOK: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume One (2019)
- Teenage Lust: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Two (2021)
- Northern Soul: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Three (2023)
- The Night: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Four (2023)
As a contributing writer[edit]
- Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon (2008) [3]
- Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal (2010)
- Analysing David Peace (Katy Shaw, editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2011) [4]
Film work[edit]
- Born To Lose: The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie (Lech Kowalski, 1999) (graphic designer, promotion)
- Ronni Lee (Ron Athey, 2000) (lead actor)
- Blank Generation (Celine Dahnier, 2006) (actor)
- The Sand Trap (Casey Fischer, 2012) (subject)
- The Second Coming (Richard Wolstencroft, 2014) (lead actor)
In popular culture[edit]
In 2013, Gregorits gained some widespread notoriety after he cut part of his own ear off with a razor blade and ate the severed lobe, while filming the event.
References[edit]
- ^ "Melbourne Underground Film Festival – MUFF 13". Muff.com.au. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ Carver, Lisa (January 27, 2013). "He's Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits | VICE Canada". Vice.com. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ Alyse (August 20, 2008). "Book Review: Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose". Blogcritics. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Ms.P Chats It Up With Author Gene Gregorits 12/19 by The NTuned Show | Books Podcasts". Blogtalkradio.com. December 20, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ "The Second Coming (2015) - IMDb". IMDb.
External links[edit]
- official website
- Beat Magazine interview
- Vice Magazine interview
- Gene Gregorits interview with director Richard Stanley, from "Sex & Guts Vol. 3", 2001
- Up From the Underground: Sex & Guts Magazine Reborn
- Love and Pop interview
- Disqus profile
- The Alexxcast interview
- Amazon.com Book Sales
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- 1976 births
- 21st-century American memoirists
- Living people
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- 21st-century American novelists
- American postmodern writers
- American male novelists
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- American male non-fiction writers