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She Wrote, He Wrote: Lollapalooza Day 2 - Sometimes it's Worth Battling a Sea of Shirtless Dudes and Sometimes it's Not (8/4)
Included in Phaze's new (ahem, erotic fiction) collection, "39... And Still Holding."
On Sale Now! (6/09)
ISBN 978-1-60659-037-9
Included in the upcoming Feathertale Review, Issue #3
(This is Issue #2)
Included in The Best of Farmhouse Magazine anthology due out Fall, 2008.
Kurt Russell and "Overboard" humor piece to appear on The Big Jewel (?/?)
Submitting a humor manuscript with one of his favorite cartoonists, Chris Simmons. This sketch of Chris's will appear in the book:
GREG BOOSE grew up in northeast Ohio, got his MFA
degree in Moorhead, MN, and now lives in Chicago.
Boose is co-creator of the review site, She Wrote, He Wrote. He is a contributing writer of The Nervous Breakdown and 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.
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.
You can email him at gregboose@gmail.com
You can visit him at his Myspace account here; Facebook here.
Writers he likes to keep up with:
Claire Bidwell Smith
Tyler Stoddard Smith
Susan Henderson
Brad Listi
Kurt Luchs
Rich Ferguson
Chris Simmons
N.L. Belardes
Steve Dupont
Joe Meno
Josh Karp
Jimmy Chen
Wayne Gladstone
Simon Rich
John Lamb
Eric Spitznagel
Stacy McKinley
Max Blumenthal
Benjamin Cox
Eric Feezell
Lien Ta
Rick Taylor
Jonathan Messinger
Abraham Levitan
Kip Tobin
Elizabeth Crane
Claire Zulkey
Roy Kesey
And then some sites that he's into:
The Nervous Breakdown
The Big Jewel
WOXY.com
826 Chicago
LitPark
McSweeney's
The Site of Big Shoulders
Yankee Pot Roast
Feathertale
Johnny America
The Huffington Post
Opium Magazine
PunchGut Studios
Monkeybicycle
Time Out Chicago
Threadless
Media Bistro
Featherproof Books
Literago
PenCapChew
Lovechild Journal
Insound
Dead Frog
Hobart
SMITH Magazine
Farmhouse Magazine
Eyeshot
Pequin
Busy Beaver Buttons
Minus the Spine
Noveltown
Greg Boose
Recent worksIn 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
Meta Man
Chicago Reader (book review of Aleksandar Hemon's "The Lazarus Project") -- 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
Them
Time Out Chicago (a book review of Nathan McCall's debut novel) -- 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