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DJ Ass Maggots is the nom de plume of an Iranian-American absurdist humor and nonfiction writer from Southern California. He has released two books of gonzo nonfiction and poetry, Quickies! and Poseidon's Tunnel.

He is a self-proclaimed satirist, who experiments with often controversial points of view. Subjects of his work include drug culture, politics, conformity, sexual mores, Burning Man and hip-hop culture. By genre his work might be considered absurdist or gonzo journalism

From Kirkus Reviews:

"An aggressively juvenile collection of poems, fiction fragments and assorted doggerel by an Iranian-American physician writing under a pseudonym...

...In the end, much effort and bodily fluid is expended in getting the reader riled, although the book is most revealing and successful in the amiable prose piece “Iranian Doctor, German Car, American Values,” which manages to condense a hundred pages of ennui and privileged cynicism into a single sentence: “Fortunately, the valet company paid for it.”

See Also:


 * Irrealism


 * Absurdist fiction

Category: American essayists