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	Powell's Books - Alternadad by Neal Pollack
		Pollack and his wife, Regina, were determined to raise their son without growing up too much themselves.
		Pollack details the kind of problems that can be found in almost every memoir on child-rearing, from how to clean up baby poop to figuring out how best to be a 'Dad' while being a friend.
		Neal Pollack is the author of several acclaimed books of satirical fiction, including The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature and the novel Never Mind the Pollacks.
	www.powells.com /biblio/9780375423628 (1747 words)

	Neal Pollack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neal Pollack is an American satirist currently living in Los Angeles.
		He used to be a frequent contributor to McSweeneys (who also published his first book, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature), and organized the McSweeneys Festival of Books Music and Art, which subsequently grew into the 215 Festival.
		Neal Pollack suffered a brief stint as a lead singer in his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion, which continues to play occasional shows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neal_Pollack (206 words)

	Yankee Pot Roast Hosts the Roast: Neal Pollack, "the World's Greatest Living Writer"
		Neal Pollack "ironically" proclaimed himself the world's greatest living writer, which is an insult to Chinese-takeout-menu typesetters everywhere.
		Neal Scotch-taped some of his pretend-boring McSweeney's works together and paraded about as the ghost of Norman Mailer, even though the pieces were wholly unconnected, uneven, and incongruous, and Mr.
		Pollack famously wrestled Dave Eggers, his summer-camp pen pal, into full-Nelson submission and barraged him with purple nurples, wet Willies, and other puerile attacks until he agreed to publish the "book." Used copies of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature are currently available for just $1.28 on Amazon.
	www.yankeepotroast.org /neal (853 words)

	Transom Shows: Neal Pollack Takes on America
		Neal signed the about 30 books that were purchased, writing funny, specific lines in each one and then wearing the puppet to sign the books as Dave Eggers.
		Neal asked if there were any questions and a fl homeless man in the crowd asked, "I wanna know where my forty acres and a mule is at" and started heckling Neal accusing him of writing a book full of white supremacy.
		Neal says these are the kind of people he hangs out with all the time, the sort of people he calls friends in Chicago.
	www.transom.org /shows/2001/200103.shows.nealpollack.jmenjivar3.html (2675 words)

	Neal Pollack Captured by U.S. Forces (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writer/blogger/quasi-rockstar Neal Pollack was captured Saturday in an underground hiding place in a remote farmhouse outside Austin, Texas.
		"Neal Pollack deserves to be sentenced to a thousand death sentences for inspiring the hundreds of thousands of pages of bad writing that has become our nation's internet community," said one reader.
		Pollack will stand trial before an Austin court and is expected to turn the incident into some sort of carnival-type media event, possibly with bad music.
	www.parentheticalnote.com /nealpollack.htm (354 words)

	Alternadad
		Neal Pollack, P.I. I've written four books: Alternadad, Never Mind The Pollacks, The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature, and Beneath the Axis of Evil.
		It was subsequently released on Bloodshot Records, and as part of a "boxed set" on Harper Audio, which included a fake interview with John Hodgman, an hour of spoken-word poetry parodies, recorded live, and various other bits of nonsense.
		In 2003, to coincide with the release of NMTP, I formed The Neal Pollack Invasion.
	www.nealpollack.com /bio (708 words)

	NPR : TITLE GOES HERE
		Pollack and his better-known pal Dave Eggers rule the turn-of-the-century irony racket -- each with a successful book issued in the waning summer of 2000.
		Pollack (the younger, actual one), a former writer for The Chicago Reader, aims his satire at some more-contemporary targets as well.
		Pollack reads from "My Week at Sea" and muses on his insatiable appetite for frozen food.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesun/features/2002/pollack (432 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Sex, drugs, and a dead rock critic
		Some of the volley pays off; Pollack's portrait of a rambling, bitter Springsteen is dead-on, as is the critic's garbled meditation on the importance of The King: ''He had multiple meanings, this Elvis, but no meaning to us meant as much as the meaninglessness of no meaning.
		Pollack the author seems to think that myth-making -- even tongue-in-cheek myth-making -- is as simple as bouncing his character off of various rock 'n' roll Hall of Famers.
		Pollack has a gift for sending up popular culture, but one can't help but wonder what kind of laughs he might generate if he chose to engage his subjects on a deeper level -- and if he had something more to say.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2003/10/12/sex_drugs_and_a_dead_rock_critic (875 words)

	Neal Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neal Pollack has achieved more by age 30 than most writers do in a lifetime.
		One recent afternoon, Pollack read to a small and sweaty audience outside Fenway Park, his crisp oration punctuated by cries of "Got tickets?" and "Need tickets?" The previous night, he had performed before a full house at the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
		Pollack, 30, tells tales of sparring with Richard Nixon and dining with Salman Rushdie.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/00/09/21/NEAL_POLLACK.html (699 words)

	Neal Pollack Invasion MIO Recording Notes
		Neal Pollack for his part is REALLY jacked up for the show.
		Neal is bounding around the room saying he wants to climb one of the 25 foot high metal constructions during the showcase and send the crowd into a frenzy.
		Pollack has also been spitting Evian water at the crowd for most of the show so the pages covering the floor are soaking wet as well.
	www.mhlabs.com /metric_halo/npi/npi8.shtml (898 words)

	Blogcritics.org: BLOGCRITIC DEBATE - Michele Catalano vs. Neal Pollack
		Neal is an accomplished writer/satirist whose sharp and biting wit sears the soft underbelly of political and cultural figures who dare to raise his ire.
		Neal Pollack: The fact of the matter is that we went to war in Iraq because we needed a permanent military stronghold in the Middle East so we didn't have to be totally dependent on Saudi oil.
		Neal Pollack: All we've done is invade a foreign country, albeit one ruled by a tyrant, with flimsy justification at best and then proceeded to utterly botch the occupation.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/09/28/160148.php (5346 words)

	Neal Pollack Joins CRACKED
		But Pollack was able to fake his way through his job interview even though he was so high he couldn't stand up when it was over.
		Pollack's duties will include writing funny things, editing things to make them seem funny, persuading 'zine publishers that they're not selling out by working with CRACKED and introducing an atmosphere of danger to the office by forcing staffers to play with poison-tipped darts.
		Pollack has written three books of satire, including the cult classic "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature" and the rock-n-roll novel "Never Mind The Pollacks." He regularly contributes to Nerve, Slate, Salon and various sections of The New York Times, and has written political satire for Vanity Fair.
	www.ereleases.com /pr/20050817005.html (553 words)

	Blogcritics.org: NEAL POLLACK - Interview
		Neal Pollack: There was this item on the Daily Show once where Lynda Carter came up and Jon Stewart said something about how she started his lifelong commitment to masturbation.
		Neal Pollack: Well, I live in Austin, which is like taking Madison, Wisconsin and dumping it in the middle of Texas.
		Neal Pollack: Back at the very beginning of this Greatest Living Writer nonsense, I was the featured reader at a spoken-word night in Chicago, and I just totally melted down.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/20/130107.php (2460 words)

	THE JENVILLE SHOW: Neal Pollack
		Neal Pollack is The Greatest Living American Writer.
		Neal also happens to be passionate about cooking and fine dining.
		Regina is Neal's wife, who kindly allowed us to invade her kitchen at dinnertime.
	www.thejenvilleshow.com /pollack.html (146 words)

	The Quern » Blog Archive » Neal Pollack and the Politics of Day Care (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I applaud Neal Pollack for writing frankly about a subject that must be quite painful for him and his wife; with luck, some valuable policy discussions may come out of it.
		Neal, the main defect in your child’s care system is you.
		You can tell that Pollack loves his son, but that doesn’t seem to translate to a desire to figure out how to raise him or to do anything concrete to help the situation.
	www.wigdahl.net /blog/2005/06/01/neal-pollack-and-the-politics-of-day-care (930 words)

	GUSTO: Neal Pollack, fanboy
		Pollack is a part of a new generation of young American writers gaining notoriety through independent publishing companies like McSweeney's and an Internet presence to rant from, like his website, Nealpollack.com.
		The accompanying CD "Never Mind the Pollacks" follows in the same vein, consisting of parodying covers of influential rock songs that amuse in the memory of their original, with absolutely nothing to do with Neal Pollack or the literary establishment.
		Pollack acts out in fiction and in performance the ultimate fantasy of the critic by inserting his persona into the center of history.
	www.dailygusto.com /arts/october/pollack-101603.html (1182 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Neal Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neal Pollack stood on a stepladder in the tiled vestibule of the men's room.
		And Neal Pollack-that is, Neal Pollack, the humorist and former Chicago Reader writer who lampoons self-serving literary pomposity through the persona of Neal Pollack, America's greatest living writer-worried that he might wind up in the slammer.
		Pollack shook my hand and informed me that he had completed his triumphant book tour and was now, in fact, a Philadelphian.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /authorpages/pollack/pollack4.html (1984 words)

	Association of Alternative Newsweeklies \| Neal Pollack to Host Alternative Newsweekly Awards
		Satirist Neal Pollack is scheduled to host the Alternative Newsweekly Awards ceremony at the AAN Annual Convention in Pittsburgh.
		Pollack, 32, describes himself thusly in a recent issue of The Stranger: "Neal Pollack, the Greatest Living American Writer, is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, nonfiction, military and culinary history, and biographer of seven presidents.
		Pollack's second book, "Beneath The Axis Of Evil: One Man's Journey Into The Horrors Of War," a collection of his political satire, was published in January by a small Austin firm.
	www.aan.org /gyrobase/Aan/ViewArticle?oid=oid:116248 (384 words)

	Gelf Magazine: An Interview With Neal Pollack
		Pollack has certainly used the internet to boost his literary reputation; he has written for Salon and Slate, and his website often doubles as a blog.
		Like the writers at The Daily Show and The Onion, Pollack is at his best when he fuses high-brow with low-brow humor, and he rarely strays from the self-deprecation of comedians like Conan O'Brien and Woody Allen: This is a guy who writes a column for Nerve.com entitled Bad Sex with Neal Pollack.
		Pollack's contribution to the collection is one of the four or five best stories in the book.
	www.gelfmagazine.com /mt/archives/an_interview_with_neal_pollack.html (2159 words)

	The Neal Pollack Invasion, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Neal Pollack has claimed to be the greatest living American writer, author of more than 50 books, and winner of every literary prize, but more accurately, he's a biting satirist pulling the leg of the reading public.
		In his book the Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, he recounts his adventures across six decades, seven continents and 10 wives and parodies the masculine heroics of such literary giants as Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway.
		Pollack has also embarked on his own "world tour 2002," an escapade that saw him performing clad only in a towel in a Toronto bookstore and reading to fans in a Philadelphia subway station men's room.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11558/11558038.html (378 words)

	Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock 'n' Roll Novel -- book review
		Neal Pollack has crafted a satirical novel that skewers both rock n’ roll and the journalists who create rock’s idols.
		Neal Pollack, the character, began life as Norbert Pollackovitz, son of Vernon and Gladys.
		You don’t need to be a diehard rocker to appreciate Pollack’s humour and biting satire; even if you’ve lived under a rock for the past two decades you’ll still get the jokes and it’s impossible not to imagine Keith Richards starring as Neal Pollack in the film version.
	www.curledup.com /pollacks.htm (630 words)

	Bookslut \| An Interview with Neal Pollack
		Neal Pollack wipes his ass with your novel.
		Pollack's reputation is growing among younger audiences, both because of his hilariously ironic writing and his habit of turning book readings into rock and roll shows.
		The Neal Pollack Invasion is a still-budding, ramshackle crew who has played Austin twice since Neal's moving here earlier this year.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2002_12_000428.php (3182 words)

	Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Arts: Books: Neal Pollack goes Criminal
		Pollack's first novel, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack, was the very first book published by McSweeney's.
		The Neal Pollack who writes about himself in books and on the Internet is a writer who's written about every war and every major newsworthy event in this century for every elitist publication in existence.
		Pollack's writing is fresh because he's smart, cool and kind of an idiot.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2003-03-26/arts_books.html (688 words)

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		They're groupies, he IS their Tom Wolfe, their Andy Warhol....Screw Neal's family and their friends; none of them really got it at all, although they laughed at the jokes and there was some Phoenix humor they all got; they were just there being nice to Susan and Bernie.
		Neal's right, the McSweeneys thing and the Neal thing is a cultural phenomenon (albeit microscopic) and it's hitting a very important group.
		But the people I met on Neal's tour (some of whom I mention in the emails to Jay)who were his biggest fans who took the time and effort to help plan Neal's tour and promote his book were women; women either closely approaching or into their thirties.
	talk.transom.org /WebX?8@58.4qkFaAmIqaf.0@.ee7cbd7 (3968 words)

	Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, The : The Collected Recordings of Neal Pollack
		Neal Pollack has been the Greatest Living American Writer across six decades, seven continents, and ten wives.
		With the publication of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature in audio format, the definitive collection of his work in English, a new generation of listeners is set to discover nothing less than the ultimate meaning of human existence on earth.
		Neal Pollack is a regular contributor to many fine publications, including the New York Press and Philadelphia Magazine.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0060011688.html (258 words)

	defective yeti: Pollack
		The titular "Pollack/Hodgman" were Neal Pollack and John Hodgman, both of whom are affiliated with The Phenomenon That Is McSweeneys.
		More to the point, Pollack's book The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature has just been published in paperback by Harper Perennial, which means they are flinging him all over the country to do book signing and readings and performances and other such Funny On-Demand events.
		Pollack and Hodgman sat in airchairs and sipped scotch as they spoke, all to further the illusion that Pollack was a highly respectable memeber of the literati and Hodgman was stolid and rather pretentious literary correspondent.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/000125.html (633 words)

	Amazon.com: Alternadad: Books: Neal Pollack
		Pop-culture writer Pollack has a reputation as a fun-loving, party-going hipster.
		For years he danced awkwardly from relationship to relationship, until he found the person he was looking for and settled down (sort of).
		Written in Pollack's in-your-face, no-holds-barred style, it just may be the most offbeat book about parenting ever written, and fans of the author's previous, equally idiosyncratic books--including that pop-culture staple The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature (2000)--will be utterly enraptured.
	www.amazon.com /Alternadad-Neal-Pollack/dp/0375423621 (546 words)

	CNN.com - Rockin' with The Greatest Living Writer - May. 1, 2003
		Neal Pollack: "The Greatest Living American Writer" is going rock 'n' roll.
		Pollack has a new book due in the fall -- "Never Mind the Pollacks" (the title a parody of the Pistols' album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"), which he describes as a "fictional history of rock" -- and he'll be touring with his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion.
		Pollack's own site received its highest traffic when he decided to create a Make Fun of the Cheneys Day in response to the second lady's cease-and-desist letter to a satirical page.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/04/30/neal.pollack (965 words)

	Literal Mind. The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, Neal Pollack
		"THE NEAL POLLACK Anthology of American Literature" is the first to be published by media darling Dave Eggers under the new McSweeney's Books division of his nascent media empire.
		I purchased "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature" after attending the author's reading event in Boston and being amused by the few pieces that he read from the book.
		Pollack rides his limited number of jokes into the ground quickly but never stops to realize that he's wallowing in the dirt.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=83 (385 words)

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