I’m a writer.
But:
I’ve erased everything that was here because I found it so appalling.
I’ve never kept a diary (on a regular basis, that is) for the same reason.
I write about books, movies, travel, and interesting people. I’ve written for both Maxim and Good Housekeeping (that’s a gamut), Reel.com, Time Out New York, Museums New York, Museums Boston, Four Seasons magazine, USAir Magazine, TV Guide, for a book called New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (2008, U of Chicago/Reaktion Books) and many others–most of which are not on the Internet.
I’ve been writing forever: I was an editor at my high school paper, and arts editor of my college paper, and even founded my school paper in 6th grade. I have an MFA from Columbia in screenwriting. My work has been (ugh) optioned. “Development Hell” it was. I also worked on countless short films. Such as this and this. I wrote and directed two sync-sound 16mm films that played such festivals as Chicago, and elsewhere.
I’m an editor for Guernica magazine , where I edit fiction, along with the occasional nonfiction piece.
I have blogged for Guernica HERE. Mostly the pieces are about Republicans. And they’re a rant. Yes, I know that.
Search my name, you’ll see I’m a signer of petitions (signed it–just one–in Union Square, unaware that it would be broadcast around the world.) And that I’ve written for magazines. Sometimes the stuff shouldn’t be on the Internet
Because I didn’t sign a contract that allowed it.
This shouldn’t be on the Internet either (because again, I didn’t sign a contract that allowed it).
Sometimes, it should
I write mostly because of these demons. They offered my a Faustian bargain: fun at school in exchange for 10 years of paying it off. Not on the internet: my fiction. That’s what I do. I’ve read here
and here
and here
and here
and here and elsewhere in little places around NYC.
I’ve also gotten a 2005 partial scholarship to Summer Literary Workshops in St. Petersburg, Russia.
and a 2006 Conference Grant
to here
And a “waitership” to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2007.
UPDATE: More about me in this autobiographical piece I wrote for the Web Site, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, an essay called, “From Kobe, Japan to New York City (and Back Again)
Also have a few more stories out there on the Internet and a page on The Atlantic. This entry is an old one.
