I Am Not Brad Pitt
and Other Stories
I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories is a collection of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions.
The title story, “I Am Not Brad Pitt,” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder.
The second story, “Please Allow me to Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Mr. Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob Dylan, the story’s vampire-killer, is equipped with more than just a harmonica and tambourine.
The final work in the collection, “Keeping Compliant with the Kardashians,” examines whether Kardashian family members are, in fact, aliens from another galaxy and what precisely is their interest on Earth.
Each of the stories is told with engaging humor, and each pokes fun more at American culture than they do, generally, of the celebrities themselves.
*****
“Each work is funny and wry and relies on the embedded knowledge in all ofus that, if given the option, we’d all enjoy being rich and famous, one of the two, or close enough….The stories are just fun to read, enjoyable and can be easily put down and picked back up. We simultaneously laugh at and root for his protagonists. It’s a quick and amusing read, don’t be surprised if you hit it all in one sitting (I did).”
– The Independent Book Review
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“In what has to be the most random and unpredictable collection of stories ever conceived, all celebrating the ridiculous addiction that Americans have to celebrity, Ross Dreiblatt has penned a pop culture dream entitled I AM NOT BRAD PITT: And Other Stories.”
-Indies Today
