Brian Stephen Ellis

The first time I was ever asked to make family breakfast at my first food job I was so pumped and wanted it to be perfect, I organized my prep in all these little paper cups, and my boss came in the room and said, "what is this, the food network?" And its an insult from which I have never recovered

So excited to share that my in-conversation partner for my book launch will be the amazing Margaret Malone! She is one of my very favorite writers out there and I'm so honored that she said yes. Come see us at Powell's City of Books on October 7th.

I was elated when Picket Fences was briefly on streaming, Sisters is still in limbo, I think

Also the first 4 seasons of Grey's Anatomy are flawless

LA Law, Golden Girls, Picket Fences, Sisters, Northern Exposure

Will Riker wearing a v neck that goes almost down to his dick

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

Screenshot of a Twitter post I found on that reads: there was a spring in second grade where every single recess I would walk out to the most remote part of the playground, “die” dramatically, and lie motionless for the entire 20 minutes. I was trying to trick a Turkey vulture into coming down to eat me so I could grab it as a pet.

porting over my “banger novel openings” thread from the bird site

Cardboard box on a rock in a garden that says free plums & propaganda. Inside the box are French plums and postcards by Marc Fischer that say Losers Attack Our Libraries, Fight for Librarians

Free plums and propaganda.

I swear everyone in Portland, OR read this article on the same day in 2015 and its been haunting us ever since

Here's the cover I made.

All Anything Anyone | Brian Stephen Ellis | Substack A Serial Novel. Click to read All Anything Anyone, by Brian Stephen Ellis, a Substack publication.

The url is: allanythinganyone.substack.com

So I'm finally self-publishing the book on Substack. Its all an experiment, I don't know how this is going to go. I am going to be releasing a 10-12 page section of the book each Wednesday. It will take about two years to come out.

A few people, close friends, and agents that got back to me, suggested that the book could be serialized like some Dickensian epic.

Over the next two years I cut 275 pages from the novel, a novel's-worth of pages if you will. The book was still impossibility long. Over 200,000 words. I sent it to a hundred or so agents/small presses and it was just too long. Unreadable.

In 2019 I finished a polished 2nd draft of my novel All Anything Anyone, a story about a group of five D&D players who fall into becoming drug dealers in the Summer of 2001. At the time the book was 1275 pages, over 300,000 words.

An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…

Hey if you are or have been a participant/attendee/admirer of the Portland Book Festival or other Literary Arts programming please consider signing on to this divestment ask!! lithub.com/an-open-lett...

You know what I’m not enjoying about our social services being dismantled? Having to guess whether a tsunami is relevant to me.

What most people call masculinity I call untherapized hypervigilance

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.

The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

Leaving 50% of my free time to chance from now on

I was really waiting for Gilded Age to have a Theosophy episode, but maybe I'm the only one??

I wish it wasn’t considered controversial to say that people should not be starved to death. I wish it wasn’t controversial to say that is unacceptable for all of humanity.

the Cape winds began howling around us, and we rose and fell upon the long, troubled seas that are there

Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance The titular father of Todd Dillard’s marvelous chapbook Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance quickly tells us “It’s my job to find the dead.” And so he does, navigating surfaced graveyards, …

if you're looking for a quick and strange read for the Sealey Challenge, please consider my chapbook "Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance" !!!!!

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Happy book release week to @mattielubchansky.com (Simplicity) and @raxkingisdead.bsky.social (Sloppy) ! Both of these books are beautiful masterworks, and everyone should buy a copy of each so as to bask in the Slopicity of it all

Live from Monument Street, by Stevie Subrizi 9 track album

⚡ news flash: i've got a new live album up for preorder!

get it while it's hot steviesubrizi.bandcamp.com/album/live-f...

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The Gaza Freedom Flotilla is live on IG right now--there's a drone around them and a vessel--as they're about to be intercepted by Israel.

www.instagram.com/gazafreedomf...

Portland Book Shop Mother Foucault's Crowdfunds To Buy Its Building Its shelves are filled, the stage is built, and now Mother Foucault's wants to buy. The vintage bookshop announced Tuesday that it's seizing a chance to purchase the building it currently occupies, at...

I'm sucker for stories like we had a writing residency behind the front desk and a darkroom in the toilet. But it might also be cool to have NICE residencies on the third floor of Mother Foucault's building.

the lustful desire to purchase a set of six le creuset pinch bowls on sale vs. the hard-learned experience that le creuset can’t ship fragile items for shit

Bold Coffee and Books presents Steve Arndt and the Spanbauerians Friday July 18 7:00 pm

This is tomorrow