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Bill Brent

I don't have much formal training as a writer and it's hard for me to pinpoint my influences. These probably range from popular song lyrics (my first major "literary project" was to write a full-scale musical at age 17 -- script, music, and lyrics), to hallucinogens, to the sex zine revolution of the early '90s. In terms of specific authors in the "literary canon," I enjoy F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, and all the dystopian stuff (Orwell, Golding, Huxley, etc.). Novels about animals are another influence (Watership Down, The Incredible Journey, Call of th more...

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Articles     ( View all 11 articles )
Christmas, uh, Music (or, I'm Dreaming of a Silent Night)
Do Appearances Deceive? Reveal? Yes.
Omens?
Review of DORA LIVES, by C. R. Stecyk
Review of HELLO CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide, by Kate Bornstein
Review of THE FUTURIST, by James Othmer (novel)
Smart Things I Said in 2006: The Brief Bloviations of Bill Brent
Summary, January 2007
The Inner God
Total Time: 55:03 (my homage to James Brown)

Poetry     ( View all 22 poems )
Dirty Old Men (Now, Truly)
EX GREX
Few men have met the raging scorn....
Give up without a Fight
Here in Acirema
I tramp the parching earth
If I Could See from You to Me
KICK THAT HABIT
Make new words
On the Future of Our Society

News
Review of my story/essay, "Wounded," which appears in Best Gay Erotica 2004
This is Only a Test now available!
apathy* gets reviewed on a big e-zine by a renowned gay-lit critic!


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