Dear Reader,
I have always been a little stumped by the world’s obsession with celebrities. Famous people spend an inordinate amount of resources on projecting an image for the public to buy. And we do!
This book began to germinate after Tom Cruise’s famous couch
jumping moment on Oprah. There he was,
trying his best to earnestly manipulate tell us how he was falling in
love with his now ex-wife and then he set off on Oprah’s famous couch. However, instead of inspiring us with his
passion for his fiancée, he opened the curtains a little too wide on exactly
who he is. He was trying his best to be
one of us. But he was not like us. Not
at all.
I began to think how celebrities are really our modern Gods
of Mount Olympus living lives of privilege that none of us could ever relate
to. In the book I wanted to use a little
dark humor to explore the mythology of celebrity. These people, who try so hard to shape their
image so we can feel that we know them.
But we really don’t know them. I
explored that space between who we think they are and who they really are.
Ross Dreiblatt is an author who was born and grew up in New York. His father was a truck driver and his mom was a retail manager. He attended Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles where he attended Cal State Northridge. While in Los Angeles, he studied under John Rechy’s master writing workshop at UCLA.
He has worked in the corporate offices of major retailers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, and Florida toiling on spreadsheets by day, and the imaginary lives of celebrity monsters by night.
He loves to travel and will get on a plane going anywhere, as long as it eventually lands safely. Despite the dour photo, he is kind of a happy guy.
He currently lives in South Florida.
His latest book is the literary fiction / humor / satire novel, I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES.
You can visit his website at www.RossDreiblatt.com or connect with him on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions.
“I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder.
The second story, “Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Keith Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob Dylan, the story’s vampire-killer, is equipped with more than just a harmonica and tambourine.
The final work in the collection, “Keeping Compliant With The Kardashians,” examines whether Kardashian family members are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy and what precisely is their interest on Earth.
Each of the stories are told with engaging humor, and each pokes fun more at American culture than they do, generally, of the celebrities themselves.
“Ross’s stories stay with you long after you’ve read them. The main characters have a relatable humanity that pull the reader in as they face an array of absurd situations. Every story is a guaranteed good time.” – Pat Griffith, author of THE DPA TRILOGY
Book Information
Release Date: November 14, 2021
Publisher: Stone Tiger Books
Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1735667683; 391 pages; $11.00; E-Book, $2.99; Kindle Unlimited, FREE
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59610948-i-am-not-brad-pitt-and-other-stories
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3mBsxgF
You can also purchase book at the author’s website at www.RossDreiblatt.com.
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