Author Archives: Greg Olear

Thanks to Lori Hettler at The Next Best Book Blog for recording this.

I’ve been fortunate to have some pieces up at various blogs this week.  Here’s the round-up: At Lenore Skenazy’s great Free Range Kids blog, I discuss the odd correlation the state of New Jersey has found between swingsets and choking. … Continue reading →

Fathermucker reviewed by Robert Burke Warren in Chronogram: “Almost everyone knows a stay-at-home dad—or SAHD, as Josh says. What most of you don’t know, and what Olear provides, is the passionate, devilish inner monologue often at odds with a SAHD’s … Continue reading →

Fathermucker hits the shelves one week from today! Let’s say you’d like a signed copy of Fathermucker — but you can’t, for reasons of geography or babysitting, make it to one of the events to have me do it in … Continue reading →

I was lucky enough to be on the Gil Gross radio program last week.  We were discussing the pros and cons of the GPS thing that lets you know exactly where your children are at all times, and Prudence wound … Continue reading →

Over at The Big Other, my friend Davis Schneiderman has a nice little series going called #Authorfail, in which writers discuss projects that, for whatever reason, never saw the light of day. Here is my entry, about the second novel … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce that, after years of buying drinks and hitting on her at company parties, I have finally hooked up with Bookslut.  (I would call the experience “Joycean”). Thanks to Elizabeth Collins, who blogs at Pretty Freaky, for … Continue reading →