Neal Pollack

Neal Pollack, "The Greatest Living American Writer," is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling memoirs Alternadad and Stretch; the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature; the novels Never Mind the Pollacks, Jewball, Repeat, and Keep Mars Weird; and Downward-Facing Death and Open Your Heart, a pair of "yoga mysteries." Pollack is currently the editor-in-chief of Book and Film Globe. His twenty-five-year freelance writing credits include a column in Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Men's Journal, Slate, Salon, Nerve, the Federalist, the Drive, Yahoo!, Esquire, the Jewish Daily Forward, Decider, and many other publications large and small. A three-time Jeopardy! champion, a former correspondent for the Cannabist, and a certified yoga instructor, Pollack lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife (the painter Regina Allen), their son Elijah, and a Boston Terrier named Briar.