Back in 2001, when New York City was still kind of a cool place to live, I was 26 years old. I sat in my tiny, hot, airless, windowless studio apartment in the East Village, and decided that since I was a young artsy type living in a tiny, hot, airless, windowless studio apartment in the East Village, it behooved me to have some sort of Project, the sort that gets you interviewed on NPR. This is why people move to New York City after all: To Be Someone. Since I was single, had an MA in history, and have a sort of navel-gazing, nerdy personality, the obvious thing was to question where the hell the whole convoluted mating-game thing that we all subscribe to came from. The result was A History of Single Life. Sadly, the manuscript was never picked up (well, there was some drama with Feral House, but never mind that), but I did turn it into a pretty well-received column on Nerve.com from January of 2006 to March of 2009.

Who am I? Well, for starters, I've been writing professionally since my teens. Besides my "angry young man" project CorporateMofo, which was at one point kinda famous, I've been published in the New York Press, Jewcy.com, McSweeneys, Disinformation, Renaissance and Mysteries magazines, and written for Billionaires for Bush, as well as a bunch of academic publications. I've never lied on Oprah, or any daytime TV show for that matter (even "A Dating Story"). Currently, I'm living in Northampton, Massachusetts, where I have a girlfriend and a horse and a dog (who are three different creatures, thank you very much) and teach fencing and work on my Ph.D dissertation in medieval history, and am generally a lot happier than I was in New York.

Complete book proposals and manuscripts for HOSL are still available upon request.