Gene Gregorits

Gene Gregorits 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

• 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: My Pennsylvania Hell 1976-1996 (2015)
• Intra-Coastal: One Year On St. Pete Beach (Volume Two) (2015)
• Fishhook Volume Two (2015)
• Dog Days Volume Three (2015)

As a contributing writer

• 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

• 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)

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In popular culture

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.^[7]

References

1. "Melbourne Underground Film Festival – MUFF 13". Muff.com.au. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
2. Carver, Lisa (January 27, 2013). "He’s Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits | VICE Canada". Vice.com. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
3. Alyse (August 20, 2008). "Book Review: Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose". Blogcritics. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
4. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/978-1-4438-2990-8-sample.pdf
5. "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.
6. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2678700/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
7. "NSFW: Mentally ill Florida man cuts off his own earlobe and eats it to promote his books from monastrell_publishing". Funnyordie.com. September 5, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

External links

• 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