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Poppy Z. Brite

Photo by J. K. Potter
Born Melissa Ann Brite
May 25, 1967 (1967-05-25) (age 41)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation Novelist, writer
Writing period 1985-Current
Notable work(s) Lost Souls (1992)
Drawing Blood (1993)
Exquisite Corpse (1996)
The Value of X (2002)
Liquor (2004)
Prime (2005)
Soul Kitchen (2006)
Spouse(s) Chris DeBarr
Influences
Official website

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Literary history

Early in Brite's career, she was best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories. Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience Her trademarks have included using gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions in the works, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. Some of her better known novels include Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (originally titled Birdland)(1993), and Exquisite Corpse (1996); she has also released short fiction collections: Swamp Foetus (also published as Wormwood, 1993), Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also published as Self-Made Man, 1998), Wrong Things (with Caitlin R. Kiernan, 2001), and The Devil You Know (2003). Lost Souls is a 1992 horror novel the first written by Poppy Z Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel the second novel from author Poppy Z Exquisite Corpse is the third horror novel by Poppy Z Brite. The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton an English convicted homosexual serial Wormwood, also titled Swamp Foetus, is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also titled Self-Made Man) is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries Dublin, Ireland) is the author of many Science fiction and Dark She has also written a biography about singer Courtney Love (1996) that was officially "unauthorized," but Brite tends to acknowledge that the work was done at Love's suggestion and with her cooperation. Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9 1964 is an American Rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Brite has moved away from horror fiction and gothic themes while still writing about gay characters. Her critically acclaimed Liquor novels -- Liquor (2004), Prime (2005), and Soul Kitchen (2006) -- are dark comedies set in the New Orleans restaurant world. Black comedy, also known as black humor or dark comedy, is a sub-genre of Comedy and Satire where topics and events that are usually regarded A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers. The Value of X (2002) depicts the beginning of the careers of the protagonists of the Liquor series--Gary "G-Man" Stubbs and John "Rickey" Rickey; other stories, including several in her most recent collection The Devil You Know and the novella D*U*C*K, chronicle events in the lives of the extended Stubbs family, a Catholic clan whose roots are sunk deep in the traditional culture of New Orleans. The Devil You Know is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z Brite hopes to eventually write three more novels in the Liquor series, tentatively titled Dead Shrimp Blues, Hurricane Stew, and Double Shot. However, in late 2006 she severed her relationship with Three Rivers Press, the trade paperback division of Random House that published the first three Liquor novels, and is currently taking a hiatus from fiction writing. She has described Antediluvian Tales, a short story collection to be published by Subterranean Press in November 2007, as "if not my last book ever, then my last one for some time. November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year It began on a Thursday and 30 days later ended on a Friday " She is still writing short nonfiction pieces, including guest editorials for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and a food article for Chile Pepper Magazine. The Times-Picayune is a daily Newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

One interesting and popular aspect of Brite's work is her use of recurring characters in works that are not necessarily "series" or "sequels": the friends/bandmates Steve and Ghost and the residents who interact with them in the fictional town of Missing Mile, North Carolina (Lost Souls, "Angels," "How to Get Ahead in New York," "America," "The Rest of the Wrong Thing"); her fluidly gendered alter ego Dr. Brite, the coroner of New Orleans ("Monday's Special," "O Death, Where Is Thy Spatula?", "Marisol," "Crown of Thorns," "Wound Man and Horned Melon Go to Hell"); and most recently longtime companions/chefs Rickey and G-man (The Value of X, Liquor, Prime, Soul Kitchen, D*U*C*K, numerous short stories). About her fondness for revisiting characters, Brite has said, "If I really get obsessed with a character or set of characters, it's usually not enough for me to write about them once; I like to revisit them over the course of time, at different periods in their lives, learning new things about them, getting to know them better and better over the course of several stories. " Of her various recurring characters, Brite has stated that she is finished writing about Steve and Ghost and suspects she may be done with Dr. Brite as well. She plans to continue writing about Rickey, G-man, and the Stubbs family.

Brite has often stated that, while she will allow some of her work to be optioned for film under the right circumstances, she has little interest in movies and is not overly eager to see her work filmed. In 1999, her short story "The Sixth Sentinel" (filmed as "The Dream Sentinel") comprised one segment of episode 209 of The Hunger, a short-lived horror anthology series on Showtime. The Hunger is an English television horror anthology series co-produced by Scott Free Productions Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV Showtime is a subscription television Brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United Of all her books, only Exquisite Corpse is currently under option, by producer Simon Rumley.

A critical essay on Brite's fiction appears in The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004) by S. T. Joshi. Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) is an Indian American Literary Critic, and a leading

Personal life

Born a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about her gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. Gender identity disorder (GID is the formal diagnosis used by Psychologists and Physicians to describe persons who experience significant gender dysphoria (discontent Gender identity (or core gender identity) is a person's own sense of Identification as Male or Female. She self-identifies almost completely as male rather than female but makes no attempt to dress or appear male and does not expect to be referred to as "he". [1] Brite is comfortable with the term "non-operative transsexual".

She lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia prior to returning to New Orleans in 1993. Chapel Hill is a town in Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Athens-Clarke County is a unified city-county in Georgia, US, in the northeastern part of the state at the intersection of U The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule She loves UNC basketball and is a sometime season ticket holder for the NBA, but she saves her greatest affection for her hometown football team, the New Orleans Saints.

Brite and husband Chris DeBarr, a chef, run a de facto cat rescue and have, at any given time, between fifteen and twenty cats. Photos of the various felines are available on the "Cats" page of Brite's website. They have been known to have a few dogs and perhaps a snake as well in the menagerie.

During Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the federal levee system in 2005, Brite at first opted to stay at home, but she eventually relocated 80 miles away to her mother's home in Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States She used her blog to update her fans regarding the situation, including the unknown status of her house and many of her pets,[2] and in October 2005 became one of the first 70,000 New Orleanians to begin repopulating the city. PortalCurrent events News collections and sources See WikipediaNews collections and sources.

In the following months, Brite has been an outspoken and sometimes harsh critic of those who are leaving New Orleans for good. She was quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere as saying, in reference to those considering leaving, "If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life. "[3]

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

Short story collections

Anthologies (as editor)

Short stories

n. Lost Souls is a 1992 horror novel the first written by Poppy Z Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel the second novel from author Poppy Z Exquisite Corpse is the third horror novel by Poppy Z Brite. The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton an English convicted homosexual serial The Lazarus Heart is an original novel by Poppy Z Brite based on the world and thematic concerns of The Crow and published in 1998 by Harper Plastic Jesus is a Novella by Poppy Z Brite, published by Subterranean Press in 2000 Liquor is Poppy Z Brite 's first novel in the liquor novels, which revolves around the two young chefs Rickey and G-man Christa Faust (born June 21[[ 969]] in New York City) is an American author who writes original novels, as well as novelizations and Soul Kitchen is Poppy Z Brite 's 3rd novel in the Liquor series, which revolves around the two young chefs Rickey and G-man Wormwood, also titled Swamp Foetus, is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z Are You Loathsome Tonight? (also titled Self-Made Man) is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z Wrong Things is a collaborative short-fiction collection by Poppy Z Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born May 26, 1964 in Skerries Dublin, Ireland) is the author of many Science fiction and Dark The Devil You Know is a collection of short stories by New Orleanian author Poppy Z This is a list of episodes for the television series Dark Angel. b. these were originally published as chapbooks

Nonfiction

Uncollected short fiction

See also

Notes

  1. ^ See Brite's LiveJournal, especially the August 22, 2003 entry
  2. ^ Ivry, Bob. Courtney Love The Real Story (ISBN 0-684-84800-7 is a biography of rock musician Courtney Love, written by Poppy Z Shadows Over Baker Street New Tales of Terror! is an anthology of stories each by a different author and each concerning an exploit of Arthur Conan Doyle 's This is a list of some (not all notable Writers in the Horror fiction genre. "As storm raged, stalwart bloggers stayed at keyboards". The Standard Times. (August 31, 2005)
  3. ^ For text of entire speech, originally given at 2006's Banned Books Night, see Brite's journal entry for September 25, 2006.

External links

Interviews

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