Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas: 11th Anniversary Launch Party

✦ In collaboration with Tiny Sounds Collective, Host Publications is celebrating the launch of the 11th Anniversary Edition of Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores!

✦ Expect a reading from Fernando A. Flores, live-music from Elnuh and Felt Out, and flash tats by @jesse.inkman.

✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature and music!

✦✦✦ ABOUT THE BOOK ✦✦✦

Here in the 11th anniversary edition, the iconic stories in Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas form a compendium of underground musicians and artists from the Rio Grande Valley who achieve moments of greatness unwitnessed, stardom that lasts for only a brief, transcendent moment. But, intoxicated by the electric pitch of screamed lyrics, dingy bass lines, and surreal performance art, the unknown artists careening through these stories are reckless enough to imagine the triumph of the art form against all odds.

From the author of Brother Brontë, Valleyesque, and Tears of the Trufflepig, this debut marks the beginning of Flores’s one-of-a-kind style, speeding full tilt toward narrative structures, and leaving us starstruck by the inevitable collapse.

✦✦✦ ABOUT THE GUESTS ✦✦✦

Fernando A. Flores is the author of Tears of the Trufflepig, Valleyesque, andBrother Brontë. This is his first book.

Felt Out is a levitating, ethereal pop band from Texas.

Elnuh is a dreamy trashgaze band from San Antonio, Texas.

✦✦✦ ABOUT THE HOSTS ✦✦✦

Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

Tiny Sounds is a DIY organizing, recording & publishing collective based in Austin, TX. In 2025, they won a critic's pick award from the Austin Chronicle for Best Bibliophile Emo Bookers.

✦✦✦ ACCESSIBILITY & PARKING INFO ✦✦✦

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RESTROOM: Our public restroom is single-occupancy and wheelchair-accessible.

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✦✦✦ ABOUT ALIENATED MAJESTY BOOKS ✦✦✦

Alienated Majesty Books is a bookstore and community space in central Austin known for a curated collection of small presses, poetry, comics, and translated work. In 2024, we were named a critics pick for Best Obscure Literature Collection by the Austin Chronicle.

More than just a place to buy literary leastsellers, Alienated Majesty hosts events every week, from poetry readings to punk shows. Find our full events schedule here.

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