Brian Costello

Losing in Gainesville Brian Costello

"Costello describes suburban absurdities in teeming detail, approaching the self-aware gross-out humor of Tromaville: tumbling forward with the rushing momentum of Kerouac's prose. Nineties counterculture—emo bands, riot grrls, shit jobs, sleeping on floors, warm beer and cold pizza—often provides the punch line. Though funny and poking fun, Costello remains sympathetic to the awkwardness and ambivalence that drives young people, feeling trapped, to struggle to express themselves: that beautiful, life-affirming cycle of broke kids starting bands."
—Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc front man, author of Let Go and Go On and On and The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self Defense

"A bittersweet, twenty-something, rock-and-rolling tale of angst and longing, riffing on art and the meaning of it all amidst the banality and beauty of 90?s Florida in a fever dream portrait of the artists as not-so-young punk rockers."
—Eric Charles May, author of Bedrock Faith