User:Brandon Christopher
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] NOTE: This is not me. However, I like this person better than me, so it stays on the page for now.
Brandon D. Christopher is an artist, novelist and journalist. He has published over a dozen short stories and essays in magazines, literary journals, websites and anthologies. He has also recently (3/2007) published his first book, Dirty Little Altar Boy, through Ghost Pants Press.
Brandon D. Christopher is also a writer and producer of several documentaries and TV biographies, including: Just for the Record -- The Rolling Stones, the highly acclaimed 16-hour documentary The Definitive Elvis, and The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.
About Christopher's first novel, Dirty Little Altar Boy: These are the true confessions of a Dirty Little Altar Boy — Brandon D. Christopher’s hilarious collection of essays about coming of age while coming undone. It was 1985, and if you weren’t a diehard Knight Rider fan or didn’t belong to a respectable altar boy posse then you probably wouldn’t survive long in the savage and perilous institution known as St. Charles Junior High School. It was a time for discovering what “uncool” was (and how it applied to everything about you) and a time for moms who educated their sons in the fine art of vanity, mousse, and perfectly parted hair. It was a time for pretending to be murdered to freak out your neighbors and a time for realizing that you weren’t as good-looking as your parents said you were. It was the perfect time for a Dirty Little Altar Boy.
Here's what the literary critics are saying: “A brutally honest and original coming-of-age story … hysterical and endearing.”
—Unzipped Magazine
“One of the funniest, most authentic books we’ve read in a long, long time.” —Duct Tape & Rouge
“Brandon Christopher is a wise adult still in touch with the feelings and ideas of his younger self. His personified memory remembers for us and we are all the better because of him.” —TCM Reviews
“Deeply written … shows the brutality of children.” —ArmchairInterviews.com
“So twisted and good it must be read.” —Campus Circle
