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Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Neal Pollack

America’s favorite writer Neal Pollack on sandwiches, The Onion, and the world’s inability to ‘top’ him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of The Morning News. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books (August 2010). He most recently wrote the Letters from Paris column for TMN. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island. You can catch him on Twitter or find more on his web site.
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INFINITE SUMMER

Dracula

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DOB: 1 March, 1970

What do you do:
I am the author of ‘The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature,’ the first book from McSweeneys Books, and the forthcoming ‘Poetry and Other Poems.’ The Anthology will be published by HarperCollins in March 2002, and will also be a spoken-word album around the same time. No one can top me.

Favorite book:
Up In the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell and Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson.

Heroes:
In Philly, we call them hoagies. Also, Sammy Sosa, the Incredible Hulk, and possibly Terry Southern.

What makes you laugh:
Jiminy Glick, The Onion, tickling.

Charity worth giving to:
Partners In Health

Five words that sound good:
Fall sale at Kenneth Cole.
—Published September 1, 2001