Other work
Fingerprinted
Since 2008, Daniel Allen Cox has written the column Fingerprinted for Capital Xtra newspaper.
Read installments of Fingerprinted.
Tattoo This Madness In
A novella by Daniel Allen Cox
Dusty Owl Press, 2006
ISBN 0-9739266-4-3
Shortlisted for a 2007 Expozine Alternative Press Award
To Florida teen Damian Spitz, the only thing more fun than getting shunned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses is dragging his friends with him to Armageddon. Tattooing each of them with a Smurf − the cartoon character the ‘jay-dub’ sare notoriously afraid of − he descends into a life of pure punk pleasure. The dream mutates when Damian unwittingly forms a cult of his own, and a suicide leads him to explore desires he’s only barely ready to handle. Tattoo This Madness In is a study in sexual transgression, a community manifesto, and a middle finger lifted high.
Book cover photo by Photomarek
Reviews
Tattoo This Madness In is smart, weird, speedy, subversive, and intense. It’s filled with surprising images and sharp, economical sentences. I was almost mad when it ended, so I immediately read it again
−Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin, now a major motion picture.
If William Burroughs and Clive Barker had a love child and fed it only BooBerry cereal, its literary output might be as highly charged and frenetic as the sexy bloodbath that is Tattoo This Madness In.
−Reed Massengill, author of Portrait of a Racist
Daniel Allen Cox has achieved a minor cult following for his book, Tattoo This Madness In.
−Laura Roberts, The Link
A zippy novel of punk mayhem, sexual transgression, bloody epiphanies, and artfully outrageous subversion . . . impressively irresistible.
−Richard Labonte, Books To Watch Out For
Daniel Allen Cox unravels the twisted truth in the heroic rebel yell of queer youth.
−Richard Burnett, Hour
We haven’t seen a book like this for a long, long time.
−Expozine Alternative Press Awards jury
Daniel Allen Cox’s short novel Tattoo This Madness In helps restore my faith in Canada’s young writers.
−Matthew Firth, Ottawa Express
I loved the book, I sucked it up, Cox is a talented son of a gun.
−Derek McCormack, author of The Haunted Hillbilly and Grab Bag
Tattoo This Madness In is a smartly penned slice of punk drama, a middle finger held high to mainstream society and writing. I can’t wait to see what Cox comes up with next.
−Sandra Alland, Xtra
A powerful novella, Tattoo This Madness In unravels like a speed trip on Neptune.
−MJ Stone, Hour
Cox writes in the same manner that the needle-man at the core of his drama sins: outrageously, calculatingly, urgently. He kicked my ass all over the place.
−Brian Ames, author of Eighty-Sixed
Anthologies
Daniel Allen Cox has published short stories and essays in numerous print and online magazines.
Here are some anthologies that have collected his work:
Year of the Thief (Thieves Jargon Press, 2006)
Second Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009)
I Like It Like That (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009)
