About Me

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Morgan Hobbs is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is the author of three novels, including I'm the Bomb, Slash Palace and Doctors & Monsters, and numerous short stories, screenplays and comic strips. He lives in Washington, D.C.

A few of my favorite things

Terry Southern. David Lynch. The Pixies. Mark Leyner. Thomas Pynchon. The Kills. Bellflower. Miles Davis. Bruce Jay Friedman. Get Your War On. Thomas Berger. The Grassy Knoll. Michelangelo Antonioni. SCTV. Cat Power. Hunter Thompson. Tom Waits. Gary Larson. X. Thee Oh Sees. Luis Bunuel. Stanley Elkin. Soul Coughing. Salvador Dali. Robert Coover. Fellini. Outkast. Donald Barthelme. SPY Magazine. Jonathan Fire*Eater. David Cronenberg. Andre Breton. The Doors. Chuck Klosterman. The Ophelias. Charles Bukowski. Sharon Van Etten. Jim Jarmusch. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Norm MacDonald. Replacements. Danny McBride. Nicholas Roeg. Beastie Boys. Mr. Show. John Coltrane. Richard Brautigan. The Coen Bros. Iggy Pop. Quentin Tarantino. Sam Lipsyte. Under the Silver Lake, PJ Harvey. Dr. McNinja.

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I'm the Bomb

doctors & Monsters

An acid washed Hollywood satire in the best tradition of Terry Southern's Blue Movie and Michael Tolkin's The Player. The logline: About to be forced out of the company he started, a diabolical movie mogul sabotages his own studio’s film production.

doctors & Monsters

Doctors & Monsters reinvents the Frankenstein’s Monster story, setting it in modern day Los Angeles (imagine the famously reconstructed Monster making a surprise cameo on General Hospital). The story turns the daytime soap genre on its head, viewing it through the prism of Pynchonesque dark humor and 50s B-Movie sci-fi.

Slash palace

The President of the United States and his cronies convene at a remote mountain compound to plot the destruction of Washington, D.C., and are in turn slaughtered by mutant hillbillies born of the POTUS’s own illegally dumped toxic waste. Only the president's college-aged daughter can stop them.

my blog

Slash palace

My long running blog about arts and letters and anything else I'm thinking about.

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My favorite comic novels

The Funniest Novels of All Time (that I've read) - To make it on this list the book has to be laugh out loud funny. Don Delillo is a great "comic novelist" but the humor is very sly and subtle. Nobody fell off their chair reading The Body Artist. Same thing for Joyce, who is also considered a comic novelist. There weren't a lot of laughs in Dubliners, or Ulysses for that matter.

The Magic Christian - Terry Southern

Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Et Tu Babe - Mark Leyner

Blue Movie - Terry Southern

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson

Candy - Terry Southern

Homeland - Sam Lipsyte

The Houseguest - Thomas Berger

I'm the Bomb - Morgan Hobbs

Nowhere - Thomas Berger

Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl

Tokyo Woes - Bruce Jay Friedman

The Curse of Lono - Hunter Thompson

Hollywood - Charles Bukowski

The Dick - Bruce Jay Friedman

The Rum Diary - Hunter Thompson

A Mother's Kisses - Bruce Jay Friedman

The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin

The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh

George Mills - Stanley Elkin

A Bad Man - Stanley Elkin

A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Brautigan

Gerald's Party - Robert Coover

Reinhart in Love - Thomas Berger

Killing Time - Thomas Berger

The Hawkline Monster - Richard Brautigan

Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan

Panama - Tom McGuane

Ninety-Two in the Shade - Tom McGuane

Doctors & Monsters - Morgan Hobbs

The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle

Snow White - Donald Barthelme

The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme

Paradise - Donald Barthelme

Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

Slash Palace - Morgan Hobbs

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Nothing But Blue Skies - Tom McGuane

My Life and Hard Times - James Thurber

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

Pudd'n Head Wilson - Mark Twain

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Journey to the End of the Night - Celine

Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

Based On a True Story - Norm MacDonald

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Keep the Change - Tom McGuane

The Stench of Honolulu - Jack Handy

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Harry the Rat with Women - Jules Feiffer

Tooth Imprints on a Corndog - Mark Leyner

Dreaming of Babylon - Richard Brautigan

The Teatherballs of Bougainville - Mark Leyner

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Fiction - Neal Pollack

Never Mind the Pollacks - Neal Pollack

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

The Subject Steve - Sam Lipsyte

Antkind - Charlie Kaufman

The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

Good As Gold - Joseph Heller

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

Bright Lights Big City - Jay McInerney

Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Envy - Yuri Olesha

Lolita - Nabokov

Pale Fire - Nabokov

A Night of Serious Drinking - Renee Daumal

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

Women - Charles Bukowski

John's Wife - Robert Coover

Myra Breckenridge - Gore Vidal

Riotous Assembly - Tom Sharpe

Keep Mars Weird - Neal Pollack

Stern - Bruce Jay Friedman

The Self-Devoted Friend - Marvin Cohen

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Pulp - Charles Bukowski

Perv, A Love Story - Jerry Stahl