A Writer's Journey
His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and have been anthologized in Miami Noir, Las Vegas Noir, Brown Sugar, Wanderlust, Making the Hook Up, and Here We Are: an Anthology of South Florida Writers.
All or Nothing: "As a cartographer of autodegradation, Allen takes his place on a continuum that begins, perhaps, with Dostoyevsky’s Gambler, courses through Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, William S. Burroughs’s Junky, and the collected works of Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby Jr.”—New York Times Book Review
Jesus Boy: “Perfect timing and crackling dialogue, as well as heartrending pain balanced by uproarious predicaments, make for a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love.”—Booklist
Every Boy Should Have a Man: Every Boy Should Have a Man is James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley, a twisted contortion of a weird fairy tale future gone wrong, all told from high atop the mountain in a sort of New Testament prose.”—Chicago Tribune.
I Disappeared Them: “Like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates's Zombie, Preston L. Allen's immersive narrative hauntingly occupies the peculiar psychological landscape of a murderer.”
Asked why his books cover such a wide range of subjects, Allen answers, “The characters live in my head, banging the walls, shouting to be heard. When they tell me their stories, I write them. I’m a pretty good listener.”
All or Nothing: "As a cartographer of autodegradation, Allen takes his place on a continuum that begins, perhaps, with Dostoyevsky’s Gambler, courses through Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, William S. Burroughs’s Junky, and the collected works of Charles Bukowski and Hubert Selby Jr.”—New York Times Book Review
Jesus Boy: “Perfect timing and crackling dialogue, as well as heartrending pain balanced by uproarious predicaments, make for a shout-hallelujah tale of transgression and grace, a gospel of lusty and everlasting love.”—Booklist
Every Boy Should Have a Man: Every Boy Should Have a Man is James Baldwin meets Aldous Huxley, a twisted contortion of a weird fairy tale future gone wrong, all told from high atop the mountain in a sort of New Testament prose.”—Chicago Tribune.
I Disappeared Them: “Like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates's Zombie, Preston L. Allen's immersive narrative hauntingly occupies the peculiar psychological landscape of a murderer.”
Asked why his books cover such a wide range of subjects, Allen answers, “The characters live in my head, banging the walls, shouting to be heard. When they tell me their stories, I write them. I’m a pretty good listener.”