Comments on: Greg Olear: The TNB Self-Interview

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:33:02 +0000

Thanks, Nick. It’s a bit like playing tennis with yourself, I guess…I’m excited to read yours!

By: N.L. Belardes

N.L. Belardes — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:26 +0000

If my self interview is half as good as yours I will consider myself a real writer. You turned this into a fucking art form, Greg. Hilarious read!

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:56:33 +0000

Thanks, Liz.

There will be video of the Greg & Duke Show, too, hopefully by year’s end. It was a great crowd, and I’m really pleased with how it went.

I’m still on for Philly if you are. We’ll talk offline.

Re: the stickers. I suggest your daughter’s guitar case. Or a locker at the school. Or the mirror in the girls room. Or just in your office.

And now am off to tweet…

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:35:26 +0000

Yes, we do. Mollie is all over these pages.

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:35:09 +0000

Thanks, Mom!

By: Elizabeth Collins

Elizabeth Collins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:40:21 +0000

Dear Greg,

I am late reading this interview (I am tired and did not get that you were interviewing yourself until the end…despite the subtitle…but was amused by the “they’re the same kids” part. Actually, I was amused by more than that. Nice job!). Sorry!

I was also late listening to the podcast of your reading with Duke. Again, very nice. Congratulations and wish I could have been a fly on the wall.

You kindly gave me a “Totally Killer” 1991 sticker that I actually don’t want to stick on anything, but if you have suggestions for where I should put it, let me know. It’s very cool.

I hesitate to put it on my car, because I am too vain for people to think that I drive a 1991 car–not that the car is any great shakes.

So–are we still going to do this Philadelphia reading? You tell me, and maybe you can get the cabaret dudes to call you back.

I wonder if Marni has any Advent calendars for sale? I really need one–preferably the kind with chocolates inside. Guess i could drive down to a Delaware mall and find out?

Start tweeting again, please!

By: Tony DuShane

Tony DuShane — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:27:33 +0000

hey, we have the same agent.

By: janice olear

janice olear — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:35:54 +0000

I didn’t know a person could actually interview himself. But if anybody could do it with such humor and style it’s my Greg.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:43:46 +0000

I will wear whatever hat you like, Mr. Chee. The Asshole abides.

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:52:29 +0000

Thanks, Jim. So glad you liked the book…and also glad to be mentioned with Hardy in any context. I love Hardy (much more than Dickens). One of my favorites.

TK would make a great holiday gift…especially for one’s boss. ; )

By: Greg Olear

Greg Olear — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:50:16 +0000

Golear sounds like a sci-fi name. Change the last letter, though, and it’s health food.

Thanks, Richard. This was pretty fun to do (as you’ll soon see), and I look forward to yours. Even if it winds up being a cut and paste of mine. I won’t tell…

By: Jim Simpson

Jim Simpson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:24:31 +0000

Your dialogue is much more than halfway decent. I really enjoyed the interview: smart, funny, irreverent, all the good stuff. TK is a great read and will surely (unbeknownst to them) end up in more than a few of my friends’ Xmas stockings.

Also, “encumbrances” is so Thomas Hardy. Nice.

TK reminds me of the NYC I recall from ‘87-’88. Well done, sir.

By: Richard Cox

Richard Cox — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:05:38 +0000

I don’t know why but I love your abbreviation in the URL: “golear.” Ha.

I’m totally waiting on my copy of Totally Killer. However I read the first few pages on Amazon and was hooked. I loved your first two lines, and I think we’ve all known someone like Taylor…at least the oozing pheromones part. Can’t wait to read the rest.

You’ve helped set a high bar for the self interview. I think by the time mine comes around we’ll be parodying the early ones and I’ll just copy/paste this and change your name to mine.

By: Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:42:20 +0000

Justin: Well…you’re cute and I like you, but from my experience, you’re also wrong. I was instructed in pedagogy at Iowa—we all were. And if you call me a ‘patently mediocre composition instructor’, I’m going to break up with you. And make you wear that hat I like.

By: Megan DiLullo

Megan DiLullo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:07 +0000

Ya know, Greg. He was fresh, but you handled him with ease.