What's the deal here?

This site launched in November 2003, when I was participating in NaNoWriMo for the first time.

The format has changed a few times since then, and now we seem to be stuck on whatever rants or stories strike me. The big plan is not to let the gaps in between run on for too long. Famous last words...


So who the hell are you, anyway?

I'm another liberal New York Jew, and I do a whole lot of stuff.

I write, obviously. To date I've written two novels (one of which being the first crack from 11/2003). One of them is sitting midway through a second draft, and the other is being prepped for the start of its third draft. But editing, specifically my own stuff, is an amazingly boring pain in my ass, so I tend to work slow. I write faster than I edit, but I suspect that holds true for most folks.

Apart from the two novels, there's obviously this site.

I'm the editor and a main contributor to Inactual Size, a repository of neat stuff that we think you might like to see. It essentially amounts to blurbs about stuff we each dig, whether that be books, movies, music, food, gadgets, shit floating around the internets, etc.

I also work. Like a real, live, paycheck-inducing day job. In an office in midtown Manhattan. I even wear a suit sometimes, with some nifty cufflinks.

Feel free to leave comments on the posts, or if the lights are dimmed and you're feeling a bit more personal: jfeigenbaum [at] gmail [dot] com.

Otherwise, head on back.