about
Portrait of the artist as a little prick.
Artist and author, Fagan, touts a long list of mediocre achievements, probably the least of which is this website.
As a wee lad in Milwaukee, he cut his comedic teeth in grade school when he illustrated the Holy Family as zombies in his First Communion Prayer Book. Ever the prolific storyteller, in fifth grade he authored a ten-part series about a time-traveling Mongolian who slaughtered Nazis and Blackshirts in graphic detail.
At 18, Fagan moved to Seattle where he graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Film.
A month after the breakup of his second, wildly unsuccessful punk band, he relocated again, this time to New York. It was here that he graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and later with an MA in English Education from Brooklyn College.
Before completing his debut novel, Blowing Up Bushwick: A Novel and Manual, Fagan contributed to Rolling Stone, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, Playboy, and many other publications. Very often, he uses this site to raise funds for mutual aid efforts, at times donating 100% to such causes. He splits his time between Bushwick and Mexico City.
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