Neal Pollack has been the Greatest Living American Writer across six decades, seven continents, and ten wives. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award (twice), and the Premio Simon Bolivar for contributions to the people's struggle in Latin America. In 1985, Pollack's writing was declared "beyond our meager standards" by the Swedish Academy 
With the publication of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the definitive collection of his work in English, a new generation of readers is set to discover nothing less than the ultimate meaning of human existence on earth. This astonishing work of fictitious nonfiction, the funniest and most creatively styled postmodernist confection of its time, has been universally praised as the best book ever written except for maybe Don Quixote and The Shipping News. The Anthology - now expanded, updated, and thoroughly repaginated - answers, once and for all, the question that has plagued American society in general, and literary critics in particular, since Neal Pollack was born: "Who is Neal Pollack? " At last, we know.

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

Literature & Fiction

Pollack, Neal

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Neal Pollack has been the Greatest Living American Writer across six decades, seven continents, and ten wives. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award (twice), and the Premio Simon Bolivar for contributions to the people's struggle in Latin America. In 1985, Pollack's writing was declared "beyond our meager standards" by the Swedish Academy 
With the publication of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the definitive collection of his work in English, a new generation of readers is set to discover nothing less than the ultimate meaning of human existence on earth. This astonishing work of fictitious nonfiction, the funniest and most creatively styled postmodernist confection of its time, has been universally praised as the best book ever written except for maybe Don Quixote and The Shipping News. The Anthology-now expanded, updated, and thoroughly repaginated -- answers, once and for all, the question that has plagued American society in general, and literary critics in particular, since Neal Pollack was born: "Who is Neal Pollack?" At last, we know.

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Complete Neal Pollack Recordings

HarperAudio

These names defined the mayhem, excess and glory of American rock for half a century, but only Neal Pollack was there for every note of every show, except for the shows he missed. Only Neal Pollack saw Memphis with Elvis, the Village with Dylan, and the depressed Pacific Northwest with Kurt Cobain. Only Neal Pollack had the extra-potent cough syrup that they all so desperately craved.
From the twisted mind of America’s most-photographed satirist comes a raw protean yawp from the depths of nowhere, a hilarious trip through time that savagely parodies the history of rock-‘n’-roll and its grandiloquent journalism.
The fictional Neal Pollack, born Norbert Pollackovitz before being renamed, by Elvis, at his Bar Mitzvah, first hears the blues as a child. The notes come from the guitar of Clambone Jefferson, an ancient, mythical character who Pollack spends the rest of his life chasing as the source of music’s primal allure. In that pursuit, Pollack becomes a renegade rock journalist whose screeds appear in such high-profile publications as Hillbilly Hot Rag! and Broken Testicle. He seduces Patti Smith and Joan Baez. He discovers Kurt Cobain. He goes on pharmacopoeial binges that put the most reckless, bloated rock star to shame.
Through it all, the real Neal Pollack, the greatest American novelist of his generation, manages to echo the style of overeducated blowhards while tackling the history of blues, rock, punk, post-punk and post-post-punk with equal enthusiasm and disdain.
Never Mind the Pollacks is a rock novel that really rocks. Like a classic album, it opens with a kick in the guts, proceeds to a bite in the shins, and ends with an uppercut to the jaw, leaving you bloodied, awed, and grateful. Along the way, it manages to uncover America’s sellouts and false idols. So drink some cough syrup and put on Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power. Better yet, burn your copy of Raw Power and listen to something new. Because rock, like literature, must destroy itself. Thankfully, Neal Pollack is here to kill them both.

Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel

Humor & Satire

Harper

A satirical parody of the history of rock and its journalism follows the evolution of such genres as blues and punk while citing the factors, over-education, beliefs, sellouts, and egos that contributed to its most notable events. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

From Neal Pollack, acclaimed author of Alternadad and The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, comes Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. Here is the hilarious but true account of an overweight, balding, skeptical guy who undergoes a miraculous transformation into a healthy, blissful, obsessively dedicated yoga fiend.

Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Alternadad

A few years ago, Neal Pollack was probably the least likely father you’ve ever met: a pop-culture-obsessed writer and self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics. In typical fashion, he responded to the birth of his son by forming a mediocre rock band and taking it on tour. Now, in Alternadad, he tells the hilarious and poignant story of how he learned to be a father to his son, Elijah, after the failure of his short-lived rock ’n’ roll dreams. Pollack and his wife, Regina, were determined to raise their son without growing up too much themselves. They welcomed the responsibility but were worried that they’d become uptight and out of touch. Through the ups and downs of the first years of their son’s life their determination is put to the test, and they find themselves changing in ways they never expected, particularly after Elijah develops a biting problem in preschool. Alternadad is a refreshingly honest book about the wonders, terrors, and idiocies of parenting today. From enrolling his son in an absurd corporate gymnastics class to a disastrous visit to a rock festival to uncomfortable encounters with other parents whom he’d ordinarily avoid, Pollack candidly explores the everyday struggles and the long-term compromises that come with parenthood. Mixing ironic skepticism with an appreciation for the absurdities of everyday life, Alternadad is a portrait of a new version of the American family: responsible if unorthodox parents raising kids who know the difference between the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. Wildly funny, surprising, and often moving, it just might be the parenting bible for a new generation of mothers and fathers.

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Pantheon

This collection of satirical essays by the wildly clever Neal Pollack was among the first books published by McSweeney's. The author fabricates for himself a super-inflated ego, and goes on to apply that persona's preposterously offensive and short-sighted opinions to issues ranging from race relations to wild teenagers, but more than anything else, to his own (albeit fictional) stunning accomplishments.

The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature

McSweeney's

Bridge is a literature, arts and culture journal published out of Chicago. Our first issue includes works of original fiction, poetry, essays and a number of hybrid forms, including travelogues, and group-composed shorts. For more on Bridge, check out our website, where new, shorter work by Bridge print edition contributors appears weekly. Or almost weekly.

Bridge: Stories and Ideas

Arts & Photography

Workman, Michael

Chernoff, Maxine

Lanier, Chris

Zograf, Aleksandar

Gibbons, Reginald

DOMINI, JOHN

Maliszewski, Paul

Charles, Bryan

Inez, Colette

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Golus, Carrie

Douglas, Thax

Walzer, Kevin

Badikian, Beatriz

Furtak, Rick

Gaughran, Tracey

Hamilton, Greg

Juros, Jake

Kendrick, Monica

Leick, Karen

Leming, Warren

Newberry, Jim

Purcell, Greg

Sparks, Rennie

Syverson, Ralph

Timberlake, Ben

Timmons, Susan

Trykv, Cheryl

Welch, Patrick

Architecture

Bridge Magazine

On September 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 September 11, Pollack has had unrestricted access to world leaders and their evil plans to kill us all. He's traveled millions of miles, sometimes flying coach, to get the interviews and suck the dust necessary to shake us from our grief stupor. Beneath The Axis Of Evil is a tour of the interlocking circles of this Dantesque world. With passionate reporting, Pollack gives voice to the voiceless, and also voice to people who are on television all the time, but are still important. Life is a game and we are its pawns. Pollack understands that, and he has crafted a uniquely American account of our ongoing war and the end of the world that will endure against the events of September 11, 2001 and win the National Book Award. A lone copy will be found by survivors a decade from now, and to reclaim hope from the ashes of their shattered lives, they will hail it as the new gospel. 
Pescient, thoughtful, with a chest made of brick, Neal Pollack is the only writer today who matters.

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

So New Media

"Dirty Magick: Los Angeles" is an urban fantasy anthology exploring the crossroads between magic and crime. Set in the city that invented noir, these stories comb the back streets and side alleys where the shadows are so sharp, they can shave you clean. Featuring such distinguished writers as Neal Pollack, Richard Rayner, Justin Macumber and Terry Mixon, this collection, edited by Charlie Brown, presents a whole new approach to urban fantasy.

Dirty Magick: Los Angeles

Mixon, Terry

Macumber, Justin

Nichols, Brent

Rayner. Richard

Finn, Michael Ashleigh

Willett, Michael

Samuels, Lisa Anne

Remington, Adam

Short Stories & Anthologies

Lucky Mojo Press

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