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Neal Pollack
An American satirist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist

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The Neal Pollack Invasion with special guests Soda Diet

Apr.15.2013

The Neal Pollack Invasion with special guests Soda Diet

After their triumphant 'industry' showcases at SXSW, the NPI returns for a FREE show at Longbranch Inn.

"Never Mind The Pollacks" LP re-release (with bonus track "Beer and Weed" out in June.

Download "Beer and Weed" from the Chicken Ranch download store starting on 4/20- Record Store Day!

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PUBLISHED: Aug.10.2010

Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

The hilarious true account of an overweight, balding, skeptical guy's unexpected transformation into a healthy, blissful yoga fiend. Neal Pollack was out of shape. The hair on his head was thinning and the hair on his face was pretentious—traits a New York Times critic gleefully pointed out while panning his second book. Combined with the predestined failure of his punk rock band,...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.09.2007

Alternadad

His novel Never Mind the Pollacks, a hilarious treat, used a fictional “Neal Pollack” to parody the excesses and idiocy of current pop culture. But his self-awareness becomes more self-indulgent (though still witty) in this straightforward memoir of life with his artist wife, the couple’s decision a few years ago to have a baby and the attendant strains that his son, Elijah, wreaks...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2003

Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel

The most important document in the history of rock ‘n’ roll since the liner notes to Killroy Was Here. (This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.) Never Mind the Pollacks, the first novel from acclaimed humorist Neal Pollack, is an epic history of rock-and-roll told through the eyes of two rival rock critics...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.05.2002

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack

It should come as no surprise that the Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is the inaugural title from McSweeney’s Books, the publishing arm of Dave Eggers’ literary quarterly McSweeney’s. There appears to be two Neal Pollacks at work in the literary world. There’s the legendary award-winning writer who has covered such global crises as the Spanish Civil War and 1999’s “...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.04.2013

Downward-Facing Death

Blessed with uncanny deductive skills and a blasé disregard for authority, Matt Bolster was a rising LAPD homicide detective by the age of thirty-five. He was also overworked, divorced, near-alcoholic, and miserable. Then, to impress a girl, he agreed to try yoga. And with a single savasana, everything changed. Now Bolster has traded his badge and gun for a scraggly beard and...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.25.2011

Jewball

From the bestselling satirist and memoirist Neal Pollack comes a funny, gritty historical noir about a tough Jew on the brink and about a great American game coming into its own. 1937. The gears of world war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, America's greatest basketball team, is dealing with his own problems...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2005

Chicago Noir

The city of Chicago has spent much time and money over the last decade marketing itself as a tourist-friendly place for the whole family. It’s got a shiny new Millennium Park, a spaceship in the middle of Soldier Field, and thousands of identical faux-brick condo buildings that seem to spring from the ground overnight. Chicago’s rough-and-tumble tough-guy reputation has been...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.25.2003

Beneath the Axis of Evil: One Man's Journey into the Horrors of War

On Sept. 11, 2001, the world was shaken to its foundations unlike on any other foundation-shaking day in the history of the world. Fortunately, Neal Pollack was a few miles away, In Brooklyn, and it only took him couple of hours to start writing. Unlike any other writer since the terrorist attacks, Pollack has had unrestricted access to world leaders and their evil plans to kill...

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Oct.11.2011 - 7:48 am

Jewball Is Here

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,...

May.26.2011 - 5:01 pm

Jewball: Chapter One...

...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...

Aug.09.2010 - 12:17 pm

Why I Almost Ran Away From Yoga School

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. NP Soon after yoga school...

Jan.29.2008 - 9:33 pm

Here's To Patry

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...

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Jun.15.2010

Published by Kirkus Reviews

Review of Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. Once upon a time, the author was a hot writer, a charmingly comedic iconoclast ever ready to poke a sharp stick in the eye...

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Video: Neal Pollack's "Stretch" - Joint

Video: Neal Pollack's "Stretch"—Boner

Video: The Standing Still Contest

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...

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Neal PollackAn American satirist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist

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The Neal Pollack Invasion with special guests Soda Diet

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About Neal

Neal Pollack
An American satirist, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist