Edward Champion
Edward Champion is the Managing Editor of Filthy Habits. He is a Brooklyn writer with a receding hairline who sometimes answers to the name Alfredo Garcia. He once had a literary blog here called Return of the Reluctant from 2003 to 2007, but, in 2008, it was absorbed into the long-form written format of Filthy Habits.
His work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Philly Inquirer, Newsday, as well as more disreputable publications. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, a podcaster of questionable repute, a playwright and director (Wrestling an Alligator, the San Francisco Fringe Festival) and a fiction writer (novel in progress, working title: Humanity Unlimited). He has decided not to employ the Oxford comma for this bio and apologizes to adamant grammarians. He can also cook up a pretty good breakfast, and has recently learned how to make a half-decent omelette. He also feels very silly writing bios about his fey accomplishments.
He is also hired to speak in front of crowds from time to time.
If you’re interested in hiring Mr. Champion to write something for your publication or as an entertainer for your wedding (or some other interesting affair), email him here. If you’re interested in writing for Filthy Habits, you can likewise email him your pitches.
Here is some of Mr. Champion’s most recent journalism.
- The Culture Novels of Iain M. Banks (The Barnes and Noble Review)
- Loneliness (Chicago Sun-Times)
- The Novels of John P. Marquand (B&N Review)
- The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Thomas M. Disch obit (New York Magazine)
- Sarah Hall (B&N Review)
- American Nerd (Chicago Sun-Times)
- The Reel Stuff (L.A. Times)
- The Big Squeeze (B&N Review)
- Lonely Werewolf Girl (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Ralph Bakshi (New York Magazine)
- The Year of Disappearances (L.A. Times)
- The Ten-Year-Nap (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Button, Button (Los Angeles Times)
- Lush Life (B&N Review)
- Stanley Milgram (Guardian)
- The Good Rat (Chicago Sun-Times)
- The Learners (Los Angeles Times)
- The problem with X lit labels (Guardian)
- Anthony Burgess (Guardian)
- Riding Toward Everywhere (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Sharp Teeth (Los Angeles Times)
- Day (Philly Inqurier)
- Bowlderizing Children’s Books (The Guardian)
- In Defense of the Single-Sentence Paragraph (The Guardian)
- Gonzo and The Gonzo Way (Philly Inquirer)
- The Perils of Literary Biography (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Author Letters (Guardian)
- Watchman (Los Angeles Times)
- Signed, Mata Hari (Chicago Sun-Times)
- In Defense of Younger Writers (Guardian)
- Finding Iris Chang (Los Angeles Times)
- Zeroville (Philly Inquirer)
- Oliver Sacks Profile (Time Out New York)
- The Great Man (Philly Inqurier)
- Run (Philly Inquirer)
- Crooked Little Vein (Philly Inquirer)
- Death of a Murderer (L.A. Times)
- Bad Monkeys (L.A. Times)
- Confessional Writing Feature (L.A. Times)
- Marianne Wiggins Profile (Time Out New York)
- Blaze (Los Angeles Times)
- The Unknown Terrorist (Philly Inquirer)
- After Dark (Los Angeles Times)
- Lionel Shriver Profile (Chicago Sun-Times)
- You Don’t Love Me Yet (Philly Inquirer)
- Then We Came to the End (Philly Inquirer)
- The Color of a Dog Running Away (Newsday)
- Poor People (Los Angeles Times)
- Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat (Philly Inquirer)
- Un Lun Dun (Los Angeles Times)
- Mathematicians in Love and Mad Professor (Los Angeles Times)
- Lisey’s Story (Philly Inquirer)
- My Girlfriend Comes Back to the City and Beats Me Up (Philly Inquirer)
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Philly Inquirer)
- Saturday (January)
- Stop That Girl (January)
- Coast of Dreams (Los Angeles Review)
- Plot Against America/Cloud Atlas (January)
- The Coma (January)
- Aloft (January)
- The Epicure’s Lament (January)
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli (January)
- Love Monkey (January)