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The Big Moose Prize Winner
Hollywood Buckaroo by Tracy DeBrincat

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ISBN: 978-0-9828766-8-8
Catalog: Black Lawrence Press
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Categories Contest Winners, Fiction, Novels, The Big Moose Prize

Hollywood Buckaroo

Tracy DeBrincat

Publication Date: October 16, 2012

Description

A man. No plan. A hamburger commercial. A wild west town. A mess. Black Lawrence Press is proud to present the winner of the inaugural Big Moose Prize. Tracy DeBrincat’s Hollywood Buckaroo takes place in the fictionalized world of Buckaroo, based on the real-­life movie set location of Pioneertown, California. A story about a guy coping with his father’s death while living out a twisted version of his dream before returning to a life he dreads, Hollywood Buckaroo is also a love letter to the movies, the afterlife, the high desert, tiny towns and big cities, dysfunctional families, broken hearts, broken legs, the Siamese twins of ambition and humiliation, despair and delight, Hells Angels, celebrity, infamy, William Carlos Williams, the possibility of aliens, and the supreme satisfaction of a really great shower.

Praise

“If Kurt Vonnegut teamed up with J.D. Salinger to write a teaser for Six Feet Under and The Coen Brothers filmed it, you’d have a sense of the gorgeous, off-beat, poetic, deep, astonishingly hilarious, intimate, touching family of characters that Tracy DeBrincat has created in Hollywood Buckaroo. It is rare that a writer with such a flagrant original voice is at the same time so solid and accessible. You will find yourself clutching this book tightly to your body”

-Hal Ackerman

Tracy DeBrincat–whose name alone should seduce–is snappy, winning, lightly perverse”

-Padgett Powell

Hollywood Buckaroo’s witty and engaging love-­hate relationship with the industry it so vividly portrays is as entertaining as a trip to the movies itself.”

-Ed Solomon

About the Author

Tracy DeBrincat

Tracy DeBrincat’s short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva. Most recently, the short story The Real Samaritan Jones was published by Roi Fainéant Literary Press in June 2025.  Her first work of non-fiction, Letters to Myself the Younger, appeared in Vol. VIII of The New Guard and received a Pushcart nomination. DeBrincat’s novel, Hollywood Buckaroo, received the 2011 Big Moose Fiction Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. The award-winning short story collections, Troglodyte and Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night, were published by Elixir Press and Subito Press, respectively. The poem, Hurtling Toward the Millennium Formerly Known as This, was awarded the Southern Prize for Poetry in 1999. She lives in Los Angeles, where she’s been working on a new novel, Once Upon a Coyote, for about 100 years. It’s gonna be great.

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