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Alan Goldsher Revealed
About Alan Goldsher
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What is your birthdate?:9/21
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Previous occupations:Musician, record label drone, record store slave
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Favorite job:Writer. Duh.
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High school and/or college:New Trier High School / college schmollege
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Name of your favorite composer or music artist?:Miles Davis
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Favorite movie:Almost Famous
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Favorite television show:Arrested Development
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Eat, sleep, write, sports, love, peace & hair grease
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. To steal a phrase from Viv Savage: "Have a good time, all the time."
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Nick Hornby, John Irving, Stephen King, Tom Perrotta, Peter Biskind, Ben Elton, Jonathan Lethem, and Jonathan Tropper.
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby "The World According to Garp" by John Irving "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind (I'm leaving one slot open for my readers to offer suggestions - AlanGoldsher@gmail.com)
- Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Learn these two things: Know when you're done with a project, and learn to bounce back from rejection.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. Dude, your stuff is, like, way weird.
- Q. How did you come to write Paul Is Undead?
- A. The whole postmodern zombie craze -- which, to me, started with "Shaun of the Dead" and reached critical mass with "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" -- seemed like a hoot, and I wanted in. I didn't know jack about Victorian literature, but I knew a a thing or three about the Beatles. And even though there will be cries of bandwagon jumping, the genesis of the book was fairly organic: I've always loved horror (Stephen King was one of the first "grown-up" writers I ever read), and I'm a Beatles nerd. It was a match made in heaven...or maybe in hell. Bwah hah hah hah hah hah!!!
