Gene Gregorits


Justin Gene Gregorits is an American writer, editor and publisher. 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, sexuality, trauma, mental illness, violence, multi-substance abuse and death. He has said that early influences on his writing included Charles Bukowski and Louis-Ferdinand Céline,.

As a contributing writer

Chelsea Hotel Manhattan: A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon Antique Children: A Mischievous Literary Arts Journal
  • ''Analysing David Peace''

Film work

Born To Lose: The Last Rock'n'Roll Movie Ronni Lee Blank Generation The Sand Trap
  • ''The Second Coming''

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.