Gene Gregorits

Career

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.

He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon (2008)

Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal (2010)

Analysing David Peace (Katy Shaw, editor Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2011)

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 (post-production, 2014) (lead actor)

Mr.

Gregorits has had 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.

Works

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  • Do You Love Me: The Gene Gregorits File

    (DO YOU LOVE ME: THE GENE GREGORITS FILE is an experimenta...)

  • DO YOU LOVE ME: The Gene Gregorits File

    (DO YOU LOVE ME: THE GENE GREGORITS FILE is an experimenta...)

  • Johnny Behind The Deuce

    (In the fall of 2001, underground writer and publisher Gen...)

  • Dog Days: Volume One (Volume 1)

    (With DOG DAYS, Gene Gregorits begins the saga of "Gene Gr...)

  • HATCHET JOB: The Gene Gregorits Reader (Volume 1)

    (This rowdy literary street brawl of an anthology is unarg...)

  • The Portland Eight Mile

    (”I wrote this novella in 2003 after living on the streets...)

  • Sex & Guts: Anthology 1997-2002

    (Sex & Guts was a working class trash culture journal that...)

  • Dog Days: Volumes 1 - 2 Omnibus Edition

    (In 2012, DOG DAYS VOLUME ONE came seemingly out of nowher...)

  • DOG DAYS Volume Two

    (Dog Days Volume Two continues the misadventures of Gene G...)

  • HATCHET JOB: The Gene Gregorits Reader (Volume 1) by Gene Gregorits (2012-08-08)
  • Sex & Guts: Anthology 1997-2002 by Gene Gregorits (2013-12-17)
  • Do You Love Me: The Gene Gregorits File by Gene Gregorits (2014-03-31)
  • (The Portland Eight Mile) Author: Gene Gregorits published on (June, 2014)
  • Dog Days: Volumes 1 - 2 Omnibus Edition by Gene Gregorits (2013-07-21)
  • Midnight Mavericks: Reports from the Underground: 1 by Gene Gregorits (2007-01-30)
  • The Portland Eight Mile by Gene Gregorits (2014-06-06)