THE ERRORS TOUR by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS (LIMITED-EDITION SIGNED HARDCOVER PRE-ORDER)
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PRE-ORDER a signed, limited-edition * copy of BRIAN ALAN ELLIS’s latest 180-page hardcover omnibus, The Errors Tour, containing collected and uncollected material (some NEW, some RARE, mostly OUT-OF-PRINT), as well as essays, reviews and interviews! Will ship by April 2025!
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The shittier I felt, the more I’d tweet. I tweeted about my failure as a musician, my failure as a music critic, my failure as a restaurant line-cook, my failure in relationships, my failure in understanding life outside of random archaic pop-culture references, my failure as a poet etc. etc. I accumulated lots of these tweets. In search of greater validation while reeling from the small buzz my Sad Laughter book (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) was building, I began turning these tweets into poems, under the delusion they’d maybe get published in literary journals, which they somehow did. Those accumulated tweets made from sad desperation and comical hopelessness were now, amazingly, published poems. A year later I collected them into two modestly successful volumes, Road Warrior Hawk (2019) and Bad Poet (2020), both included here, together with other poetic odds and ends, coupled with aggrandizing interviews and reviews about said poems, all of which, for better or worse, comprise The Errors Tour.
“You can read [Ellis] and conclude that maybe despair isn’t so bad.”—CHARLENE ELSBY, author of Red Flags
“[Ellis] is a true American artist. [This book] bears the laughter and burdens of reality… and glows with all the best of it.”—BRIAN ALLEN CARR, author of Bad Foundations
“I simultaneously want to live in [Ellis’s] brain and never want to go anywhere near it.”—LEXI KENT-MONNING, author of Burden of Joy
“While some writers try blurring the line between comedy and melancholy, [Ellis] obliterates it altogether. [This book is] like getting high at your mom’s funeral… then sobbing while laughing.”—D.T. ROBBINS, author of Leasing
“Reading [this book] feels like erotically asphyxiating yourself with a band t-shirt your ex left behind—sad, dirty & wrong but just so, so unbelievably right. A cornered & fearless voice that never holds back.”—HOMELESS, author of My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor
“[This book] perfectly mixes sad poetry and pop-culture obsession, making depression feel weirdly cool, to where every poem had me thinking, Same.”—MALLORY SMART, author of The Only Living Girl in Chicago
“[Ellis] sneezes hits [and] has and will always be one to watch.”—KRIS HALL, author of Embarrassed by Everything Except for When I Put It into Poetry
“I attended Ellis’s ‘Errors’ tour while binging on Uncrustables in my darkened kitchen at 2 am, plagued by thoughts of mortality and self-abasement. My dog looked on, concerned, as I giggled maniacally with my head in my hands, perched over a cockroach-infested sink. The setlist consists of Ellis’s greatest hits: bombastic self-loathing, clever interludes about the inevitability of dying, and power ballads which pay tribute to dive-bar commiseration and WWF dreams deferred. Don’t miss his goth dirge encore, a new confessional banger, that left me breathless and assured me that this is not merely a farewell tour but Ellis entering a new era somewhere between the emo alter-ego of Chris Gaines and the stripped-down style of MTV’s Unplugged.”—JILLIAN LUFT, author of Scumbag Summer
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180 pages // Hardcover
Shipping Included (United States only)
Cover design: Tex Gresham
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BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, owner and founder of House of Vlad Press and Vlad Mag, has published several books, including Sad Laughter (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018) and Something to Do with Self-Hate (House of Vlad/Talking Book, 2017). His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Fanzine, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, X-R-A-Y, Heavy Feather Review, BULL and Forever, among many other places. He lives in Florida.
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