1. Neal Pollack writes features about technology for the American and British editions of Wired as well as Popular Mechanics, and contributes frequent car reviews and auto-culture features to the Autos page of Yahoo.
10 Facts About Neal Pollack
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Neal Pollack writes features about marijuana culture for The Cannabist, published by The Denver Post, and regularly writes articles about yoga.
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In June 2010, Neal Pollack completed a 200-hour yoga teacher's certification course at Richard Freeman's Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, and he teaches yoga at conferences and studios around the country.
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In 2001, to coincide with the publication of the paperback edition of his Anthology, Neal Pollack recorded a spoken-word album on Bloodshot Records, produced by Jon Langford and featuring Sally Timms and Kelly Hogan.
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HarperCollins put the album out in 2002 as part of a boxed set of Neal Pollack's "collected recordings," including an hour-long disc of Def Poetry Jam parodies and a fake interview with John Hodgman.
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Neal Pollack then made a surprising pivot to self-publishing, releasing his novel Jewball, in October 2011.
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Neal Pollack is the editor of Chicago Noir, a collection of original crime stories from Akashic Books.
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Neal Pollack formed a punk-rock band in 2003 to publicize Never Mind the Pollacks.
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The original Neal Pollack Invasion included folk-rock musician Jim Roll, veteran touring musicians Neil Cleary and Jon Williams, and Dakota Smith, a young Austin musician who later became the lead guitarist for Peel.
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Neal Pollack wrote the lyrics and Smith and Roll wrote the music.