Really don't mean to attack, and maybe I'm reading it wrong or it was just a throwaway remark that didn't have too much behind it to get mad about. But could someone please tell me how this statement isn't just as(if not more)self-absorbed or anti-community than anything the awful 20-something, Midwestern, frat-boy, iphone zombie, cocktail bar wooing "yunnie" stereotype always so (un)popular around here is constantly documented as doing? And I can assume from the subject matter that this author is probably into being controversial.
Writer and self-published and artists in the East Village. ".and since a local woman was murdered in my apartment it came with inspiration ensuite. The East Village is still cool! I like to tease people from Park Slope and Williamsburg and Bushwick by saying I live a block away from Tompkins Square in West Brooklyn and let them figure it out. I can’t wait to write that story.īut let me answer the unasked question here. I’m lucky enough to live in a rent-controlled HDFC that welcomes only artistic tenants so that’s certainly a nurturing environment and since a local woman was murdered in my apartment it came with inspiration ensuite. The East Village as a neighborhood and my building in particular have been hugely influential in my being able to write fulltime. In fact, writer seems far too pleasant a verb to describe what I do word-worrier is more accurate.ĭo you think the East Village provides a nurturing/creative atmosphere for artistic endeavors? Do you find inspiration here? Most of my writing is extracted in private in a darkened corner of my fur-lined lair. Perfect for people-watching or more honestly, girl-watching. But when I do venture out, one of my favorite places is Café Pick Me Up on Avenue A and 9th Street. Mind you it might just be laptop-envy on my part. I’m not sure I’m socially equipped to sit in a cafe these days. The Helmholtzplatz in Berlin is a close second but only because it reminds me so much of Tompkins Square Park.ĭo you have a favorite place to write here? Are you able to accomplish much sitting at, say, a café or a library? The area around Tompkins Square is my favorite place in the world. I’ve always wanted to live here and I‘m very lucky to have found a rent-controlled building that welcome the likes of me. I’ve lived here altogether now for about 10 years - with a break of three years when I moved to Amsterdam. How long have you lived in the East Village? This way your content and marketing merge into one. My best advice to a self-published writer is to try to say something that established publishers can’t or won’t. What is your top advice for someone considering self-publishing his or her work? It actually makes for a more satisfying experience. Because we can’t Google anyone we’re forced to make up our own minds about what’s happening in the narrative. In this case the story is the hero.Īlso writing anonymously allows me to inhabit the reader more effectively. I love that there’s no cheesey photo on the backcover and that we don’t have to hear about how the writer lives in Connecticut or San Francisco or Brooklyn or wherever with his two dogs and a cat. And now I’m already working on a third in the series a prequel to "Diary Of An Oxygen Thief." Collectively they’re known as "The Oxygen Thief Diaries."Īs a writer, do you envision continuing to remain Anonymous?īeing anonymous is part of the story. That’s when "Chameleon On a Kaleidoscope was born.
But of course a diary has no finite ending and so it became obvious that there would be a second.
I wanted to give the reader the impression they were eavesdropping. My original intention was to write a book that felt like somebody’s diary. While writing "Diary of an Oxygen Thief," were you already looking ahead to a second novel picking up where this one left off? So via email, we asked Anonymous a few questions about the new novel, self-publishing and life in the East Village. Turns out that Anonymous lives in the neighborhood. (Find more information about both books here.) The book, released earlier in the year on Kindle, is available as a hard copy starting next week.
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