Edward Champion

edbio.jpgEdward Champion is the Managing Editor of Reluctant 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, before this was transformed into the short-form/long-form halfway house known as Reluctant Habits.

His work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Philly Inquirer, Newsday, as well as more disreputable publications. He is 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 also runs The Bat Segundo Show, a radio show in which he conducts extensive and unusual long-form conversations with the writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other fine cultural people of our time. Recent guests have included Marilynne Robinson, Mike Leigh, Bonnie Tyler, Markos Moulitsas, Brent Spiner, Paul Auster, and Senator Mike Gravel.

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 employing him 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.