GREG BOOSE grew up in northeast Ohio, got his MFA
degree in Moorhead, MN, and now lives in Chicago.
He is a contributing writer of The Huffington Post and The Nervous Breakdown, and he has been published in many print and online magazines.
During the day he is a Senior Analyst at Accenture. This is how he affords 100% whole wheat bread.
Boose and his wife are the Chicago editors for BlackBook Magazine.
For two years he published the Fargo-Moorhead newspaper called "The Tooth" which can only really be traced to this review on NewPages.com. Unless you own a copy. Then it can be traced to your possession. He has almost every issue left for free if you want one. Just say the word and then send an SASE.
If you would like him to read/speak or interview with you, please direct all enquiries to his agent Jon Sternfeld (jon@irenegoodman.com) with the Irene Goodman Literary Agency.
You can email him at gregboose@gmail.com
NEW:
Follow along on Twitter: Greg_Boose
Short story accepted by Pale House. Issue coming out in Fall 2009.
Edited the 2009 edition of BlackBook's Guide to Chicago
Buy it here.
Included in The Best of Farmhouse Magazine.
Buy this one here.
ISBN 978-0-98209-160-9
Included in the Feathertale Review, Issue #3
Pick this one up if you want to read his poem "I Shot a Stray Cat."
Included in Phaze collection, "39... And Still Holding."
Ahem. Buy it here.
ISBN 978-1-60659-037-9
Submitting a humor manuscript with one of his favorite cartoonists, Chris Simmons. This sketch of Chris's will appear in the book:
Writers he likes to keep up with:
(Wife!) Claire Bidwell Smith
Tyler Stoddard Smith
Susan Henderson
Brad Listi
Kurt Luchs
Lien Ta
Rich Ferguson
N.L. Belardes
Steve Dupont
Neal Pollack
Jimmy Chen
Wayne Gladstone
Eric Spitznagel
Max Blumenthal
Eric Feezell
Rick Taylor
Kip Tobin
Claire Zulkey
And then some sites that he's into:
The Nervous Breakdown
The Big Jewel
WOXY.com
BlackBook
Cracked
McSweeney's
Yankee Pot Roast
Feathertale
The Huffington Post
Opium Magazine
PunchGut Studios
Monkeybicycle
Face Bakersfield
LitPark
Literago
Dead Frog
Hobart
Farmhouse Magazine
Minus the Spine
Greg Boose
Recent works:Short humor piece in Feathertale Review #4
Feathertale -- June 30, 2009 -- ON SALE NOW!
A Chance to Use my Mediocre Martial Arts Skills Has Come & Gone, But I'll Leave the Door Ajar Just in Case
The Nervous Breakdown -- June 25, 2009
Green Living Set to Thrive in Ravenswood Manor
The Huffington Post -- June 12, 2009
The Joys of Farm Life and the Pain of Leaving It
Chicago Public Radio -- June 8, 2009
With One Day Before the Due Date, I Go Over My "To Due" Checklist
The Nervous Breakdown -- June 5, 2009
Classic Cartoons, As Rewritten by an Evangelical
The Huffington Post -- May 30, 2009
My Prepared Commencement Speech for Arizona State University, In Case President Obama Had to Cancel to Take Care of Some Federal Shit
The Nervous Breakdown -- May 15, 2009
If Twitter Was Invented in 1989
The Huffington Post -- May 5, 2009
Rush Limbaugh Reviews His Netflix Queue
The Huffington Post -- April 24, 2009
Cavaliers' Mike Brown Named COY, But Does it Matter in Cleveland?
Sports Fan Live -- April 21, 2009
The Sign Guy Goes on Hunger Strike
The Huffington Post -- April 17, 2009
Waxing on Susan Petrone's New Novel and Dreaming of a Literal Literary Life
The Nervous Breakdown -- April 3, 2009
Just How Into You He Is, If He Is a Deer Tick
The Science Creative Quarterly -- March 31, 2009
If the Sears Tower can Change Color, Then so can Other Chicago Landmarks
The Huffington Post -- February 26, 2009
I'm Totally Rooting for Blago at This Point
The Huffington Post -- January 26, 2009
Preparing for the Birth of My First Child, Plus an Interview with Author Neal Pollack
The Nervous Breakdown -- January 13, 2009
Five Reasons Megatron Should Have Fired Starscream Years Ago
Cracked -- January 10, 2009
Even a Clever Homemade Thank You Card Involving a Picture of Wyclef Jean Can't Get Me the Job
The Nervous Breakdown -- November 18, 2008
The Lost Polling Demographic: Ham Radio Operators Around the World Chime in About the Election
The Huffington Post -- November 3, 2008
"Yo' Momma" Jokes, as Told by Nerds
Yankee Pot Roast -- October 13, 2008
As the Media Changes, So Does My El Commute
The Huffington Post -- October 7, 2008
Rewriting a Media Guide Is Easier When You're Both Lonely and Looking Important
The Nervous Breakdown -- October 6, 2008
Are Most Chicago Sports Fans This Easy to Get Along With?
The Huffington Post -- September 30, 2008
It's Not Always That Hard to Take Advice From the Governor
The Huffington Post -- September 23, 2008
Daley, Fresh Off His "Cuckoo" Hit, Tours Chicago With Other One Word Snaps
The Huffington Post -- September 17, 2008
David Foster Wallace, We Just Met
The Huffington Post -- September 14, 2008
The Sign Guy Changes His Tune But Keeps the Same Stance
The Huffington Post -- September 12, 2008
Peddling My Book at the Printers' Ball Leaves Me Depressed and Following Old Women
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 25, 2008
A Potential Investor Speaks Up After Kurt Russell's Character Finishes His "Wonders of the World" Miniature Golf Course Proposal in the Movie Overboard
The Big Jewel -- August 20, 2008
Looking for an Urban Forester with Good Communication Skills
Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine -- August 13, 2008
In the Beginning There Was an Unpaid Editing Job in Cleveland, a Potential Lawsuit, and a Bunch of Unprovoked Angry Geese
The Nervous Breakdown -- July 28, 2008
Won Readers' Choice 2008 Award and Editor's Choice 2008 Award for best satire/essay
Farmhouse Magazine -- July 14, 2008
Next Time, I Hope She Uses a Rock and a Lake
Opium Magazine -- June 18, 2008
Two Letters to Francine
Sexy humor story included in "39... And Still Holding" collection by Phaze Books -- June 9, 2008
It's Hard to Ignore a Pile of Stupid Balls in the Neighbor's Yard When They're... Just... Right... There
The Nervous Breakdown -- May 22, 2008
Book Review of Aleksandar Hemon's "The Lazarus Project"
Chicago Reader -- May 15, 2008
Friday is Jeans Day!
The Big Jewel -- May 7, 2008
Yahoo! Spamguard Fails Me Again
Monkeybicycle -- May 5, 2008
Dirty Deeds Done Not So Dirt Cheap
Yankee Pot Roast with Tyler Stoddard Smith -- May 2, 2008
She Wrote, He Wrote
New review site launched with his wife Claire Bidwell Smith -- April 28, 2008
What I'm Pretty Sure is Being Said Outside Tonight
Feathertale -- March 31, 2008
Standing On a Corner Holding Signs About Rape and Dictatorship is Just Another Day at the Office
The Nervous Breakdown -- March 10, 2008
Some HTML Tags and Text I Hope I Never Write
Yankee Pot Roast -- March 6, 2008
Transcript of Man Vs. Wild - Abu Ghraib Episode
Farmhouse Magazine -- March 1, 2008
Updates That Are Not Available On Your Computer
Feathertale -- January 30, 2008
Programs That the Discovery Channel Opted Not to Air During Shark Week
Yankee Pot Roast -- January 24, 2008
My New Favorite Game is Guessing What Else Could Go Wrong With Her Apartment
The Nervous Breakdown -- January 15, 2008
And Another Message from the LABBA Email List Serve Group
The Big Jewel -- January 9, 2008
The Good Cents of Security
Hobart -- January 3, 2008
A Letter in Regards to the Advance Motorcycle Course I Just Completed
Farmhouse Magazine -- January 2, 2008
Book review of Nathan McCall's debut novel "Them"
Time Out Chicago -- December 13, 2007
Overheard on the Second Front
Opium Magazine -- December 11, 2007
Laryy Sm1Th, Email Spammer, Writes a Christmas Card to His Parents
Monkeybicycle -- December 10, 2007
Two Takes on My Girlfriend's Cat's Thanksgiving Vacation
Feathertale -- December 2, 2007
Things Said to Me on a Monday Morning When I Arrived to Work with a Very Short Haircut
The Nervous Breakdown -- November 12, 2007
Music Classifieds from The Weekly Naturalist
Farmhouse Magazine -- November 7, 2007
Kind of Like When You're in an Empty Movie Theater and Some Big Dude With a Sniffling Cold Decides to Sit Right Next to You
The Nervous Breakdown -- October 25, 2007
And Then, Outta Nowhere, Comes Act Three: An Email, the Hand Delivered Check, and the Poorly Written Climax of the Death of an Evil iPod
The Nervous Breakdown -- September 14, 2007
Updates, Notes and Threats: Recapping a Year of Posting on The Nervous Breakdown
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 30, 2007
Golden '70s Era of National Lampoon in Chicago
Dead Frog -- August 29, 2007
My Dog Custody Proposals
The Big Jewel -- August 15, 2007
A Follow Up to My 1985 Fan Letter to Dan Marino
Opium Magazine -- August 13, 2007
Walking Around Naked With Thousands of Other Naked People Is Totally Fine Until You're One of the Last Searching for His Clothes
The Nervous Breakdown -- July 23, 2007
Sentences I Said to a Stray Dog in Downtown Gary, Indiana
Feathertale -- July 07, 2007
My Friday, As Retold By The Scrolling "Missed Connections" Headlines On Chicago's Craigslist.com
The Big Jewel -- June 27, 2007
So Maybe I Don't Have the Pictures to Prove It, But LeBron James and I Have a Special Kind of Relationship
The Nervous Breakdown -- June 04, 2007
How it Came to be That Greg Boose and Claire Bidwell Smith Can't Stop Touching Motorcycles Even Though They Know They Shouldn't
The Nervous Breakdown (co-written by Claire Bidwell Smith) -- May 07, 2007
Act Two: Igor Anatsko, You're Still Elusive and Being a Dick, But I'm Still On Your Case
The Nervous Breakdown -- April 09, 2007
Igor Anatsko, Just Give Me My Money Already or I'm Going On a Whirlwind PR Tour in an Attempt to Fuck Your Shit Up
The Nervous Breakdown -- March 21, 2007
You Should Watch Your Back at the Pun Capital of the World Mainly Because the Entire Security Detail is Focused on One Guy
The Nervous Breakdown -- March 08, 2007
Bill Walton Helps You Open a Chase Free Checking Account
The Big Jewel -- March 07, 2007
Moustaches Aren't Just for Rides Anymore; They're for the Children
The Nervous Breakdown -- February 22, 2007
You Really Shouldn't Jump to Conclusions When Finding a Cache of Weapons, Especially If You're Not Wearing a Space-Diaper
The Nervous Breakdown -- February 6, 2007
Old Safe On Wheels For Sale
The Big Jewel -- January 24, 2007
Dear Valued Customer
lovechild -- Winter 2007, Issue 1
When I Was Eleven Years Old I Would Have Liked to Have Been Kidnapped (But Only For Like Seven Hours)
The Nervous Breakdown -- January 20, 2007
Identifying Unidentified Flying Objects Just May Be What the Doctor Ordered, Or Maybe It was the Grilled Swordfish with Avocado Butter
The Nervous Breakdown -- January 07, 2007
Daydreaming About A Man Entering Your Workplace With a Gun Gets You Nowhere But Down
The Nervous Breakdown -- December 13, 2006
Mini Black Hole of False Entertainment Forms at Famous NASCAR Race
Yellow Magazine -- December 01, 2006
Five Dollar Bills Don't Get You Out of Jams Like They Used To: A Greek Tragedy at the Fargo Downtown Street Fair
The Nervous Breakdown -- November 09, 2006
Maybe a Group of Degenerates Live on the Other Side of that Mountain of Salvation Army Overstock, or the Best Halloween Costume Ever
The Nervous Breakdown -- October 23, 2006
Pointing Out the Ignorance of Business Owners Can be Fun When You're Standing Close to an Exit
The Nervous Breakdown -- October 11, 2006
If You Want Me to Write Your Film Then You Should Never Reprimand Me with a Slap on the Arm
The Nervous Breakdown -- September 10, 2006
The Ins and Outs and Sit Downs and Stand Ups and Looking Arounds When Flying Solo at a Rock Concert
The Nervous Breakdown -- September 06, 2006
I Didn't Get Married By a Guy Wearing a Leather Mask Who Was Backed by a Band of Demonic Robots, But Somebody Did
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 22, 2006
Fishing in Minnesota's Nipple Can Frighten a Man Who's Never Seen Muskrat in the Mouth of a Muskie
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 10, 2006
I Dream of Norwegian Men Shaking My Hand and Giving Me Back My Property
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 06, 2006
Standing in My Living Room and Hoping That the Neighborhood Children Hurt Themselves Might Not Be Ethically Advisable, But It Gives Me Something to Do
The Nervous Breakdown -- August 01, 2006
Life of Kleptomania Avoided With No Help From the Art Director of Pearl Jam's 4th Album or Promotional Pens
The Nervous Breakdown -- July 24, 2006
Things I Could Have Said When The Strap On My Israeli Paratrooper Bag Broke If I'd Known The Outcome Of Whichever War It Was Used In