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Neal Pollack

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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Neal Pollack’s first book, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, was published in 2000, becoming an (almost) instant cult classic. His debut novel, Never Mind the Pollacks, hit shelves in 2003, and was shamelessly promoted by his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion. In 2007, he published Alternadad, a best-selling memoir. In 2010, Pollack became a certified yoga teacher and published Stretch, a nonfiction account of his adventures in American yoga culture. He has contributed to The New York Times, Wired, Slate, Yoga Journal, and Vanity Fair, among many other publications. Thomas & Mercer published his historical noir novel Jewball in March 2012, and debuted his "yoga detective" novel, Downward-Facing Death, in serialized fiction fo ...more

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“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”
― Neal Pollack
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“Most fan fiction is terrible.”
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“It really frosted his donut.”
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