Life's a drag for the 25-year-old narrator of DBC Pierre's latest novel, "Lights Out in Wonderland." According to Gabriel Brockwell, our modern-day "Wonderland" is nothing more than an "empire of ...

Leitrim is the least-populated county in Ireland, which may help explain why, on an overcast Monday afternoon in early August, the small town of Ballinamore is utterly deserted. I have arranged to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. "Write in a reckless fever. Rewrite in a cardigan." That morsel of wisdom is one of 32 "mindbites" which award-winning bad boy novelist ...

Born in Australia but raised in Mexico, DBC Pierre grew up an outsider, and a literary vocation made a virtue of necessity. "I had to study the gap between values," he recalls in Release the Bats: ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Forget dragons and the bloated fantasy novels they can be found within. 'In the modern day, we don't ...

DBC Pierre’s novels center on crucial misunderstandings, mistaken identity, the wrongly accused; as the plots press on the stakes are rapidly raised, with the simplest confusions spiraling out into ...

There aren’t many 25-year-olds who can claim to be as decadent as Gabriel Brockwell, the protagonist of DBC (“Dirty But Clean”) Pierre’s third novel. Pierre has already served us some insane treats: ...