My 90’s Writer Guy look. Literary critics called me “Keanu Kerouac.”
Teeth is my coming of age novel set in the 1990’s pop culture world.
It was a time before cell phones. It was a land before the internet. The freedom we had as artists to evolve and create without relentlessly sharing let us grow in the shade. The process made my generation a little more critical and cryptic than following groups. They called us Gen X as if we were generic. Teeth shows a world that proves the opposite.
I had just passed 20 when I signed this deal with Simon & Schuster, and wrote this very fresh fictional take on my emerging generation. The results were love/hate. Many people appreciated an author who took some shots at the untouchable pop icons we celebrated. But in the process, some of those icons were definitely miffed. Taking on the theme of privilege way ahead of the curve, I vexed the Gen X nepo babies… along with various (and terrifyingly powerful figures) young Hollywood royalty.
What can I say? I called it like I saw it.
Dusted Neil would be proud.
“Finally, the dental masterpiece we’ve all been waiting for.”
Gore Vidal
“A scathingly humorous insider look at the MTV Generation…. Gallagher’s writing is a modern art all it’s own.”
New York Post
"This should be on top of the MTV Generation’s reading list…. Comparable to the novels of Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis, Gallagher’s story of a young man’s love/hate relationship with our pervasive youth culture as he tries to get a foothold in the adult world is funny, insightful, sensitive, bold.”
Library Journal
“With a lyrical and contemporary style, Gallagher moves easily between blaring backstage rock ‘n’ roll grit and his character’s quiet soul searching… A compelling and entertaining first novel… as moving as it is clever.”
San Francisco Chronicle
