Gene Gregorits

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Justin Gene Gregorits (born November 5, 1976) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and convicted sex offender under Florida law, his offence is not considered a felony in 40 US states and most countries in the world. 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] although his more recent work is more robustly structured and bears comparison to Joyce,Dostoyevsky and Melville.

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Film work

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.

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  1. "Melbourne Underground Film Festival – MUFF 13". Muff.com.au. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  2. Carver, Lisa (January 27, 2013). "He's Not Dead Yet? Life with Gene Gregorits". Vice.com. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  3. Alyse (August 20, 2008). "Book Review: Chelsea Hotel Manhattan by Joe Ambrose". Blogcritics. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Ms.P Chats It Up With Author Gene Gregorits 12/19 by The NTuned Show | Books Podcasts". Blogtalkradio.com. December 20, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  6. "The Second Coming (2015) - IMDb". IMDb .