Reviewing Books:
A book review of mine is up at SFGate.
Happy Birthday, Dear Book:
My book is a year old today. So much has happened since then that it feels like much much longer. Wow.
Saturday I started work on my next book, just about a year after the first. I think there’s a certain poetic justice in that.
Working on:
A short (?!) list of projects currently on my front burners
- A book review for the San Francisco Chronicle
- Preparations for my onstage interview with Josh Kornbluth
- An article for Poets & Writers
- Putting together my speech for Book Expo Canada
- Beginning work on my next book project
We’re in Da Papahs!
The Citizen Media Press Corps showed up in the Tech Chronicles blog at SF Gate today. Yay us!
A Little Writing Here, A Little There:
In the neverending struggle between meaningful work and work that actually pays, I’m trying to write where I can, what I can. Thus this
So I haven’t been talking about a lot of career stuff here lately and wanted to bring you all up to date. About a week and a half ago, my agent asked for the in-process proposal for my second book which I handed to him. The book is a case study/analysis (a la Gladwell or Freakanomics) exploration of this generation of American Jews, people in their 20s and 30s and their role in shaping American Judaism’s future. So Agent Jud spends some time with the proposal and advises me to revise, putting less emphasis on the growing coolness of Jewish culture (see Braff, Zack, Stewart, John and the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy) and more on how this, the third generation of Jews born in America, is shaping our collective fates. He also recommended I write the opening chapter and one sample chapter. He said I should have completed these tasks by summer Yow. That means this do a min-dry run of what I’ll be doing for the next 2 years if we can sell this thing. It’s exciting yes but a cold splash of reality too. Summer’s only four months away and I ain’t exactly snoring in the basement waiting for it to arrive. Being an author is great. First you gotta write some books. Obvious yes, but now its time to hit the sidewalk. Wish me luck. So I wrote an Op-Ed piece appearing in the Baltimore Sun today about how the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is Generation X’s Kennedy Assassination. I was an editorial page intern at the Sun back in 1994 which makes this doubly sweet. So I couldn’t figure out why my podcast went from 3 suscribers, all of whom I know well, to 18, none of whom I’ve ever met in like 3 days. A little digging and it seems that Your 10 Minute World was a staff pick on Odeo. I’ll be guest blogging over at Powells.com this week. So posting here may be on the light side. Jason Kottke linked today to a site devoted to well designed book covers. I clicked and whatdya know? To be in this kind of company just takes my breath away. Wow.
Second Book Update:
Kevin’s in Da Paper!
The Mystery of My Sudden Popularity:
Kevin at Powells:
This Rocks (Echo):