Gene Gregorits Explained

Justin Gene Gregorits (born November 5, 1976) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and convicted sex offender. He founded and published Sex & Guts Magazine, an independent arts and culture journal, that ran from 1997 to 2004. Subsequent works include Johnny Behind The Deuce, Sex & Guts Anthology, Sex & Guts 4, Midnight Mavericks, Dog Days: Volume One, Dog Days: Volume Two, Hatchet Job: The Gene Gregorits Reader, and Fishhook. Gregorits' most recent works have been described as having running themes of poverty, sexual deviance, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death.^[1] He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline^[2]

Bibliography

• Sex and Guts 4(2002)
• Midnight Mavericks: Reports From The Underground (2007)
• HATCHET JOB: The Gene Gregorits Reader (2012)
• Dog Days: Volume One (2012)
• Dog Days: Volume Two (2013)
• Johnny Behind The Deuce (2013)
• Sex and Guts Anthology (2013)
• Dog Days Omnibus (2013)
• Fishook Volume One (2013)
• The Portland Eight Mile (2014)
• Do You Love Me: The Gene Gregorits File (2014)
• The Portable Gene Gregorits (2014)
• Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Untold Story (2014)
• Intra-Coastal: One Year On St Pete Beach (Volume One) (2014)
• Stretch Marks (2015)
• Meet Me Down The Alley (2016)
• Bigger Than Life at the Edge of the City (2017)
• SPOOK: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume One (2019)
• Teenage Lust: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Two (2021)
• Northern Soul: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Three (2023)
• The Night: My Kate Like The Seashore: Volume Four (2023)

As a contributing writer

• Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon (2008) ^[3]
• Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal (2010)
• Analysing David Peace (Katy Shaw, editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (2011) ^[4]

Film work

• Born To Lose: The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie (Lech Kowalski, 1999) (graphic designer, promotion)
• Ronni Lee (Ron Athey, 2000) (lead actor)
• Blank Generation (Celine Dahnier, 2006) (actor)
• The Sand Trap (Casey Fischer, 2012) (subject)
• The Second Coming (Richard Wolstencroft, 2014) (lead actor)

^{[5] [6]}

In popular culture

In 2013, Gregorits gained some widespread notoriety after he cut part of his own ear off with a razor blade and ate the severed lobe, while filming the event.

External links

• official website
• Beat Magazine interview
• Vice Magazine interview
• Gene Gregorits interview with director Richard Stanley, from "Sex & Guts Vol. 3", 2001
• Up From the Underground: Sex & Guts Magazine Reborn
• and Pop interview
• Disqus profile
• The Alexxcast interview
• Amazon.com Book Sales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Melbourne Underground Film Festival – MUFF 13 . Muff.com.au . November 17, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131102033034/http://www.muff.com.au/2012/gene.html . November 2, 2013 . mdy .
2. Web site: Carver . Lisa . He's Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits | VICE Canada . Vice.com . January 27, 2013 . November 17, 2013.
3. Web site: Alyse . Book Review: Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose . Blogcritics . August 20, 2008 . November 17, 2013.
4. Web site: Archived copy . October 31, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131102151117/http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/978-1-4438-2990-8-sample.pdf . November 2, 2013 . dead .
5. Web site: Ms.P Chats It Up With Author Gene Gregorits 12/19 by The NTuned Show | Books Podcasts . Blogtalkradio.com . December 20, 2012 . November 17, 2013.
6. Web site: The Second Coming (2015) - IMDb. .