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Oct.11.2011
About eight months ago, I started writing a novel called Jewball. About four months after that, I announced that I'd be publishing it myself. And now, today, October 11, 2011, Jewball officially exists, at least in digital form. You can download it here, for only $4.99. (You can also purchase the...
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May.26.2011
...Is now available in a free preview edition from the Amazon Kindle Store. Download, read, enjoy, and spread the word!
Thanks to the great Dan Shepelavy for the fantastic cover art.
Here's the jacket copy:
JEWBALL
A Novel By Neal Pollack
From the bestselling satirist and memoirist Neal...
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Aug.09.2010
In honor of this week's publication of Stretch, I thought I'd reprint this little essay I wrote for The Faster Times back in June. Hope you all enjoy.
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Soon after yoga school began, three weeks that feels like three months ago, a small group of people asked the management if the doors could...
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Jan.29.2008
Patry Francis is a talented author who was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She's had several surgeries, and her prognosis is good. Her debut novel The Liar’s Diary came out in hardcover from Dutton last spring. It came out today, Tuesday, January 29th; however, given that...
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Dec.03.2007
I ... consider myself just one in a long line of jealous literary hacks.
–Me, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, March 28th, 2002
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About Neal
I’ve written seven books: Alternadad, Never Mind The Pollacks, The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature, Beneath the Axis of Evil, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Jewball, and Downward-Facing Death. Three of them are works of satire: the...