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...  Bill Whitten was the singer and songwriter for the rock bands St. Johnny (1989-1995), Grand Mal (1995-2010) and William Carlos Whitten (2018-?). He is also a writer, the author of a collection of short fiction called BRUTES A new album TELEPATHS is out now thanks to my friends at Stockholm's Groover Records Listen  HERE available on BANDCAMP HERE …And now reissued on CD by    https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn012-william-carlos-whitten-diana-crash-telepaths   A new single - I'm Gone Don't Look for Me I'll Never be Back - is out. find it HER E and HERE .   A new William Carlos Whitten album has been released: ROCK MUSIC IS THE COLOR OF BLACK HAIR released Sep 6. 2024 Listen HERE  .  Described by FOKUS MUSIK: “ With this kind of clever and highly entertaining version of rock music, Bill Whitten is in the same club as brilliant British eccentrics like Luke Haines or, above all, Lawrence (Go-Kart Mozart) ” William Carlos W...

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“If William Gibson or Elmore Leonard wrote contemporary short stories about fading ’00s era rockers, it might look something like Brutes…This book reads like one of the forgotten classics published by NYRB.” Stellar review of Bill Whitten's short story collection - BRUTES - at Turn and Work

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“What Whitten does so well here (and in every story in Brutes) is to create a character that feels instantly familiar, and see the world through his eyes. The nameless protagonist feels fully formed in about 100 words: to me he’s smelling of expensive cologne, cheap whisky, and an old leather jacket”. Intro to Short Story *On The Beach* from BRUTES published at TURN & WORK with introduction by Hugh Carter

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