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 (mostly) responsible exterior. Their friends view Josh and Stacy as a “great couple,” but inside, Josh is a piece of work; even before he tortures himself with screenplay versions of his wife’s infidelity—schadenfreude at its best—he’s just this side of a car crash. His frequently hilarious, insecurity-and-id-fueled conscience is stoked and soothed by hyperconnectivity to pop culture; tormented by tabloid titillation, calmed by Tom Petty, rankled by Facebook, saved by Noggin. Most men who care for kids don’t want you to know this stuff, but Josh’s frankness strikes a refreshing, power chord of truth. His little rebellions against the crunchy hipster class of New Paltz are deeply satisfying to anyone ever frowned upon for a substandard car seat.”

Read the full review.

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 person. Here is the solution!

All you have to do is pre-order the book via the website at The Golden Notebook bookstore between today and Tuesday, October 4, and you will be sent a signed copy!  It’s that easy!

I’ll add that, if you’re planning on a) attending the reading in Woodstock on October 21 — the one featuring me and my friend Robin Antalek, author of The Summer We Fell Apart — and b) buying a copy of the book, I encourage you to make your purchase at The Golden Notebook, and support your local independent bookstore.

Thanks, as always, for your support!

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 up hijacking the discussion.

Here’s the link to the podcast.

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 I completed, Babylon Is Fallen.

The lesson: don’t fuck with the Jesus.

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 the great interview, for calling Fathermucker “daring” and “impressive,” and for mentioning me and James Joyce in the same sentence without using the words “he’s no.”

Bret Easton Ellis is reading my book! And I’m in good company.