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Biography
Born in 1970, Neal Pollack is best known as the greatest living American writer and front man for the Neal Pollack Invasion. Additionally, Pollack is a freelance columnist for Vanity Fair.
Neal Pollack's most recent book is the rock-n-roll novel Never Mind the Pollacks, published in September 2003. He's working on his next book, a screenplay or two, and articles and satire for Vanity Fair, GQ, and many other publications. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.
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Books
Introduction, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America by John Adams (Akashic Books, September 2004)
Contributor, Lit Riffs (MTV, June 2004)
Never Mind the Pollacks (HarperCollins, 2003)
Beneath the Axis of Evil (So New Media, 2003)
Beneath the Axis of Evil: One Man's Journey Into the Horrors of War (So New Media, January 2003)
Introduction, Dead/Queer/Proud by Jon-Henri Damski (Firetrap, January 2003)
Introduction/Contributor, Pindeldyboz: Volume One (Pindeldyboz, July 2001)
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (McSweeney's, 2000)
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Albums
Never Mind the Pollacks: The Album! (Telegraph Media, 2003)
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, with the Pine Valley Cosmonauts (Bloodshot Records, 2002)
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Awards
Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Fiction, 2001, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
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Press and Interviews
May 2003
CNN.com
Interview: Rockin' with the Greatest Living Writer
By Todd Leopold
"Fortunately for Pollack, becoming a rock star is as easy as picking up a pen — or sitting at a word processor. After all, he already gives live readings of his work; moving into music is a natural extension, he says."
December 2002
Bookslut.com
Interview
By Kenan Hebert
"Next year, we're going to do it even differently. We're going to have two or three nights of after-hours programming, and we're going to do them at clubs as opposed to in a theater, and we're really going to make it an alternative book festival within the festival. Because book festivals are stuffy and boring."
May 2002
3 AM magazine
Interview
By Jim Ruland
"Jon Langford of the Mekons, the Waco Brothers and so many other groups, said some nice things about my book, and I worshipped him like a god. He agreed to do the album, and somehow we conned Bloodshot Records into putting the album out."
March 2002
The Onion
Interview
By Nathan Rabin
"I don't care if people write things that are insulting to me. I mean, I deserve to be insulted, and I deserve to be abused, but they've got to flesh out their ideas. That's the first thing you learn in creative-writing class."
January 2001
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Making Sense of Neal Pollack
By Dan DeLuca
"Neal Pollack stood on a stepladder in the tiled vestibule of the men's room. His magnum opus, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, open before him, he gazed out upon a dozen or so adoring fans and puzzled passersby and read from his essay 'The Albania of My Existence.'"
October 2000
Austin Chronicle
Review
By Clay Smith
"There are layers of hilarity, and it's a delight to read comedy written by someone who has taken the time to disguise jokes within jokes and to create a book of humor that requires as close a read as books that receive the kind of praise that Pollack is lampooning."
2000
The Stranger
King of the World
By Ashley Gaulthier
"Nonetheless, Big Publishing could learn something from Pollack's tour: 'Literature could use a little shaking up. I'd like to be the person to help start that process.'"
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