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Pay Pigs, Incels, and Young Sociopaths
A. J. Brown gets parasocial for the launch of Brittany Menjivar’s debut anthology at Stories in Echo Park.
A. J. Brown
Aiden “A.J.” Brown is a Chicago-born, LA-based writer, multimedia artist, and Aquarius rising. Their work has appeared in Hobart Pulp, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Dream Boy Book Club, among others. Their Bachelor-inspired murder mystery received the 2023 T Paulo Urcanse Prize For Literary Excellence from High Horse magazine. Their debut anthology, The Apple House, is slated to rerelease in 2025 with Bullshit Lit.
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Currant Jam, Customland, and the “Vagina Dream Cave”
A. J. Brown attends the latest alt-lit reading in Frogtown and is still picking stick-on face gems out of their hair.
“Alt lit is alive and well”
CONSUMPTION, Project DéBRIS and Car Crash Collective, Los Angeles, October 15, 2023. At the edge of what I call the “Stories Strip” on Sunset...
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