They are no longer together.ĭuring Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Brite at first opted to stay at home, but he eventually abandoned New Orleans and his cats and relocated 80 miles away to his mother's home in Mississippi. They have been known to have a few dogs and perhaps a snake as well in the menagerie. Photos of the various felines are available on the "Cats" page of Brite's website.
He loves UNC basketball and is a sometime season ticket holder for the NBA, but he saves his greatest affection for his hometown football team, the New Orleans Saints.īrite and husband Chris DeBarr, a chef, run a de facto cat rescue and have, at any given time, between fifteen and twenty cats. He lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia prior to returning to New Orleans in 1993. He self-identifies almost completely as a homosexual male rather than female, and as of 2011 has started taking testosterone injections. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite, now going by Billy Martin) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.īorn a biological female, Brite has written and talked much about his gender dysphoria/gender identity issues. British paperback rights to Orion.Poppy Z. Available as a signed edition, the book is for hardcore Brite fans only. Too much of the book is filled with vignettes meant to accompany artwork ("In Vermis Veritas"), contributions to very specialized theme anthologies ("Self-Made Man") or outtakes from her own novels that suffer from the loss of context. Brite's prose and eye for (often gruesome) detail have become more assured since the publication of her previous collection, Swamp Foetus (1993), but her plots have grown comparatively slighter.
"Monday's Special" and "Are You Loathsome Tonight?" both conclude with clinical descriptions of autopsies. In "Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz," a series of ax slayings that terrorized New Orleans in 1918 are explained as the result of supernatural war between two feuding spirits. Orton," a pair of gay lovers rent the apartment where playwright Joe Orton was murdered and fall victim to its legacy of lust and violence.
Cannibal zombies, sentient maggots and professional sexual submissives are just a few of the characters at large in the landscapes of death and desire that Brite maps out. Like the aging Elvis who succumbs to self-destructive indulgences in the title tale, the 12 stories in this collection of transgressive fictions are adrift in a sea of excess.
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