h.l. nelson has only been on the literary scene for little over a year, but in that time she’s managed to find a home for over thirty of her stories. Thirty. All of this while raising two children and working through the slush pile of her own literary website, Cease, Cows—which just launched this spring, but has already gathered a devoted following and a reputation for publishing challenging, edgy work.
Ellie Pyle isn’t the only female voice at Marvel Comics, but fans of her work on Fearless Defenders would argue that in the relatively short time she has worked for Marvel as an editor, she’s already become one of the most exciting. Marvel’s admirable march towards progress continues, and that gives us increasing opportunities to enjoy the contributions of editors like Pyle to their enduring library of classics.
It's five a.m. when most of us are asleep or trudging toward the shower, Kevin Ridgeway sits in his home office with a cup of coffee, an abundant supply of cigarettes, and Warren Zevon or the Stones or Muddy Waters on the record player, which is always within reach.
Chris Carter’s Millennium, a spin-off of the wildly successful series The X-Files, had a relatively short run on FOX in the late 90’s, but it has built a loyal following in the decades since its cancellation. This year has seen the release of the book Back to Frank Black, a collection of interviews and essays paying tribute to the series. Gabriel Ricard spoke with Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon, the men behind the project, about the legacy of the series and the enduring appeal of its central character.
Tim Dry’s own bio describes him as someone “with a very low boredom threshold.” A quick look through his long, diverse, and very much ongoing career would certainly seem to point towards someone with a weak tolerance for standing still.
Barbie Wilde’s career has taken her from mime to horror queen and now to novelist. Though perhaps best known as the female cenobite from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser II: Hellbound, she has had a long and fascinating career both in front of and behind the camera. As she promotes her first novel, The Venus Complex, Barbie took time to speak with Drunk Monkeys’Gabriel Ricard about her past work and what lies ahead.
Nathan Graziano isn’t fucking around. Since the publication of Frostbite, a hardcover collection of short fiction works, over 10 years ago, he has continually published heartfelt work (poetry as well as fiction) that reveals the core of humanity of characters at their lowest ebb. Last year his short work “Fishbone” was nominated for the Norman Mailer Prize ( a piece that we were lucky enough to re-publish on Drunk Monkeys), and this year has seen the publication ofHangover Breakfasts, a collection of interconnected short fiction pieces.
New York-based writer Bud Smith possesses one of the sharpest voices in all of underground literature today. His short fiction, which features what he calls, “average people at odds with the absurd”, has been published in Full of Crow, Red Fez, and The Bicycle Review, and a collection of his short stories, Or Something Like That, is available in eBook format and in print.
Brooklyn-based writer Anne E. Johnson is having the busiest year of her life. In addition to publishing dozens of works of short fiction (including a few right here at Drunk Monkeys) she has had three novels published in diverse genres: a science fiction noir, Green Light Delivery, the tween paranormal novel Ebenezer’s Locker, and the YA historical mystery Trouble at the Scriptorium.
Nathaniel Tower is the founder and editor of Bartleby Snopes, one of the web’s premier literary sites. In addition, he has published dozens of pieces of short fiction in various sources, including several right here at Drunk Monkeys.