Brutalists
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The Brutalists is a literary movement formed by writers Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers in 2006. The movement may be the first literary movement to be launched via myspace where it announced itself with the following manifesto:
"Brutalism calls for writing that touches upon levels of raw honesty that is a lacking form most mainstream fiction. We cannot simply sit around waiting to be discovered — we would rather do it ourselves. Total control, total creativity. The Brutalists see ourselves as a band who have put down their instruments and picked up their pens and scalpels instead."
"The only maxim we adhere to is an old punk belief, which we have bastardized for our own means: Here’s a laptop. Here’s a spell-check. Now write a novel."
"Brutalist writing is open to anyone who shares similar ideas about the role of literature."
Brutalist works include Digging The Vein and Seizure Wet Dreams by Tony O'Neill, Straight From The Fridge a weblog edited by Adelle Stripe, and The Book Of Fuck and The Missing Kidney by Ben Myers.
