About Seth Greenland
The End of Print
When I was asked to blog for a week on Jewcy, I was pleased, but didn’t want to just shamelessly self-promote. So let’s get that part out of the way quickly. My new novel, Shining City, is about a middle … Read More
When the Going Gets Tough, Satire Gets Going
Is satire over? I’ve been thinking about that since the election finally ended. Both the publisher and the critics called my first novel, The Bones, a satire. It is about the relationship between a self-destructive comedian whose "scabrous" (thank you, … Read More
The Recession Made Me an Optimist
I am not the sunniest person I know. Not even close. But neither am I a font of Scandinavian gloom. If I had to describe how I try to go through the day, the word that comes to mind is … Read More
Publishing 2.0
This past Sunday I went to a book party for a friend’s memoir about love addiction. It was held in a gallery on the trendy fringes of downtown Los Angeles and featured surrealist-tinged erotic art – Giorgio de Chirico meets … Read More
A Hero for Our Times
Seth Greenland, author of Shining City, is guest blogging this week as one of Jewcy‘s Lit Klatsch bloggers. Greenland’s novel is about an average, married-with-children, Los Angeles man who transforms into a Mercedes-owning high roller. In the year of my … Read More
