Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine, Newsday, PANK, Huffington Post, and has recently adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Production. Additionally, he co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs, an anthology of essays and interviews about Burroughs for Rebel Satori Press. He is also the co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal, The New Engagement. His first novel, The Unmentionable Mann, was published in 2015 by Cairn Press and his first feature film, Afghan Hound (available to stream on Amazon, Tubi and Plex) was produced by Maryea Media in 2011.

On Performer Non Grata:

It melted my face off, – Gal Beckerman, books editor for The Atlantic

A madhouse novel, both scathing and unforgettably tender, in which the real and the absurd are one…Alessandro is a virtuoso. —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown, and This Is How You Lose Her

A wild sex-soaked ride! —Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales and Iris Has Free Time.