Seven Years Bad Luck: Selected Stories and Poems (2013-2020)

This stacked omnibus contains 30 short stories culled from three different story collections (2013's The Mustache He's Always Wanted but Could Never Grow; 2015's Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty; and 2017's Failure Pie in a Sadness Face), as well as 50 poems taken from two critically-acclaimed volumes of poetry (2019's Road Warrior Hawk and 2020's Bad Poet), plus over 50 pages of selected writing and interviews from 2021-2022, most of which have never been collected in book form!"[Ellis is] one of the best living writers in America."-BUD SMITH, author of Teenager"This unapologetic celebration of everything lowbrow might sound unpleasant, but Ellis's humorous and very frank approach make it a beautiful, enjoyable thing."-Electric Literature "Ellis is the rock and roll king of sad. Most happy people only wish they could be as sardonic, humorous, and at once morose as Ellis. But they can't."-ELLE NASH, author of Deliver Me"[Ellis's] despair can feel like a performance. He seems to recognize that public persona is a sort of theater, but one with no lobby, no exits. So, when viewing Ellis's work, it's worth asking: is that real blood?"-The Rumpus"[Ellis is] the literary equivalent of the Replacements."-TROY JAMES WEAVER, author of Selected Stories