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Tod Goldberg

About Me

I'm the author of the books Fake Liar Cheat , Living Dead Girl and Simplify and I'm also the Western Regional Kickboxing Champion. You can learn even more by visiting TodGoldberg.com , but, well, not much more...

My Interests

Movies:

Out of Sight, Chasing Amy, Four Weddings & A Funeral, Shawshank Redemption, Godfather 1 & 2, The Thomas Crown Affair, The English Patient, The American President, A River Runs Through It, Almost Famous, Quiz Show, Say Anything, The Grifters, You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, Repo Man, GalaxyQuest, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back

Television:

Deadwood, The Sopranos, The Amazing Race, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, SportsCenter

Books:

Dan Chaon, Scott Phillips, Rob Roberge, Richard Ford, Tim O'Brien, Mary Yukari Waters, Daniel Woodrell, Sherman Alexie, Aimee Bender, Gina Frangello, Victor Gischler, Lee Goldberg, Linda Woods, Karen Dinino, John Irving, Robertson Davies, Amy Hempel, Aimee Liu, Margaret Atwood, James Brown, Daniel Woodrell, Pete Dexter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Lee Burke, Thomas Berger, Lorna Freeman, Leif Enger, Elmore Leonard, Richard Russo, Michale Lewis, Mary Roach, Ian McEwan, Seth Greenland, Mark Haskell Smith, Michael Onndatje, Susan Straight, Scott Turow, Pam Houston, Melanie Rae Thon, Kevin Brockmeier, Gregg Hurwitz, and countless others...

My Blog

For New Blog Posts, Visit The Mothership

I just can't manage to actually cross post my blog here. I'm just too fucking lazy. So, read all the blog goodness at todgoldberg.typepad.com.
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:26:00 PST

Contest!

My sisters always have these contests on their blog where they get people to write about what they are reading, eating, TiVoing or masturbating to and then they give away a signed copy of their book t...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:42:00 PST

Letters To Parade: Marilyn Vos Savant Is A Communist

Lee Kravitz Editor Parade Magazine 711 Third Ave. New York, NY 10011 Dear Mr. Kravitz, We've not had the opportunity to meet in person, though I have no doubt that at some point we will and I will fin...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:41:00 PST

The Benefit of Looking At Your Site Stats

So, late Saturday night I was perusing the statistics of this blog and happened across a bunch of search strings for Tod Goldberg Southern California Book Award Simplify, which seemed odd, since gen...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:40:00 PST

Letters To Parade: The Iron Fist of Fucktardism

Not too long ago, while a doctor had his hand up my ass in an attempt to find my prostate, I made a firm resolution: In the future, I'm going to do my best to avoid this sensation, even in a metaphori...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:39:00 PST

I Have Parade, Lee Has Fan Fiction

My brother, in his ongoing quest to alienate those who would never read him anyway (though I suppose a few of them would watch his shows, provided he did another sci-fi show), has once again tweaked...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:37:00 PST

Well, At Least It Wasn't Your Mother

John McNally laments on his blog about finding out that a book he sent Ursula K. LeGuin as a thank you for inspiring him to write fiction...is now for sale on ABE: I'm not sure what got into me, but ...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:04:00 PST

Letters To Parade: The

There's something you need to know about me before I discuss this week's look into the darkened fucktard soul of America: I love Christopher Reeve. Well, okay, I don't love him like I love, say, Dave...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:26:00 PST

Can Writing Be Taught?

There's an interesting article in the latest issue of the Atlantic on the very topic above -- can writing be taught? -- and I'm here to tell you, after all my years of teaching, the definitive answer:...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:25:00 PST

Rats!

  If I actually lived in LA and not the desert -- yeah, yeah, I know, it's all one big metropolitan area and what's 132 miles for something you really want? -- I'd be heading out to see the lat...
Posted by Tod Goldberg on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:24:00 PST