{"id":119,"date":"2007-02-06T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-02-27T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:46:02","slug":"bss-96-neal-pollack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-96-neal-pollack\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal Pollack (BSS #96)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Pollack is most recently the author of <i>Alternadad<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/nealpollack2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nealpollack2\" width=\"450\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2164\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-119-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=119-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo96.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 47:09 &#8212; 43.2MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Contemplating the litigious aspects of fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealpollack.com\">Neal Pollack<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The stigma against father memoirs, the Neal Pollack persona vs. the real Neal Pollack, neighborhood activism, politics, writing a book to &#8220;feed my family,&#8221; balancing art and commerce, the Chicago theatre scene, on being &#8220;family stunty,&#8221; responding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinmama.com\/momandpopculturefour.htm\">Marritt Ingman&#8217;s criticisms<\/a> about failing to acknowledge previous subcultural parenting books, the desuetude of <i>Mr. Mom<\/i>, the conformist aspects of being an &#8220;alternadad,&#8221; the mommy wars, how <i>Alternadad<\/i> &#8220;rocks the boat,&#8221; the hostile reactions to <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2005\/05\/28\/expulsion\/index_np.html\">the Elijah biting essay<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=13429\">&#8220;Shut Up&#8221; essay<\/a>, harsh reactions to Pollack in general, provoking readers, <i>Never Mind the Pollacks<\/i>, family films, pot vaporizing, the bad breakup with Dave Eggers, on pissing people off, involvement with <i>Cracked<\/i>, Regina as &#8220;straight man,&#8221; and sticking with dad writing.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  A lot of people have been sort of criticizing this book.  I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with them, but I think that people are saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pollack:<\/b> Some people. There&#8217;s been positive and negative criticism.  You know, this has definitely been the best reviewed book I&#8217;ve written.  So I mean&#8230;so what were you going to posit?<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> The question is: the nature of commentary.  Even in a crude form, does it have any kind of value?  It seems to me that the &#8220;Shut Up&#8221; essay was more of a visceral reaction, but at the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pollack:<\/b>  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> &#8230;a lot of people really were upset by it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pollack:<\/b> Yeah, and a lot of people also really liked it.  That&#8217;s the thing.  I&#8217;ve always had this uncanny ability.  I&#8217;ve always had this sort of &#8220;love me or hate me&#8221; kind of thing going on.  Especially with my writing.  And again, people were upset by it.  But I also had a lot of people telling me they appreciated it.  And that&#8217;s the same thing with this book.  For some reason, even though it&#8217;s a pretty simple book about a pretty basic subject, it&#8217;s been getting harsh reaction and then a lot of praise too.  So again it&#8217;s just a sign that I&#8217;m doing something right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2165\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-119-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=119-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo96.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 47:09 &#8212; 43.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Pollack is most recently the author of Alternadad. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating the litigious aspects of fatherhood. Author: Neal Pollack Subjects Discussed: The stigma against father memoirs, the Neal Pollack persona vs. the real Neal Pollack, neighborhood activism, politics, writing a book to &#8220;feed my family,&#8221; balancing art and commerce, the Chicago theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2166\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-119-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=119-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo96.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo96.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 47:09 &#8212; 43.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1086,1087],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}