For the past 10 years, since July 2007, I've written this blog openly under a pen name. Now, as my book is about to publish on July 25, I figured it's time to come out of the blog closet. A decade is long enough.
I tell my story to Michael Schulman in this week's New Yorker magazine, on the pages of the "Talk of the Town."
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
- THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker
“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair
"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews
THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's
"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY
“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab
"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
Welcome out of the blog closet!
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations on the book!
How's the air out there?
ReplyDeleteYou were such an antic figure in your rubber nose, Groucho glasses, and deerstalker cap! And who can forget the year of the polar bear mask and the growly voice? I'd be lying if I said I won't miss your disguises.
ReplyDeleteAm COUNTING THE DAYS till the release of your book. Love, and congratulations!
Brooks
Thank you Brooks. THOSE were the days!
ReplyDeleteWow, It's like the blog version of W. Mark Felt.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the reveal and the book.
Now run for mayor, I heard the field is quite open.
I've wondered if you were going to use Jeremiah Moss as a pen name in your book.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least Schulman did not promise to reveal your identity and then made a 180°, unlike Loca Flocka who promised a blogger not to out him, yet she decided to do so anyway because, to quote her: "his decision to stay anonymous didn’t fully square with me.” And she now works for NPR. Journalism!
Cosmo!!! No, seriously, welcome out. It's been a great 10 years of following the sad vanishing of this city.
ReplyDeleteWhomever you are, and whatever you call yourself, thanks for taking on this great project. I left Greenwich Village in Feb. '08, and have relied on your blog for a sympathetic appraisal of the continuing degradation of my hometown by those who believe the only important thing is money. I sympathize with all my friends and former neighbors who are living in the midst of the Great Homogenization of NYC. I wish you tremendous success with the book and hope that you'll continue to do what you do.
ReplyDeleteYou're JUST THE BEST!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS.
Congratulations! By stepping out of your own shadow you will amplify your voice!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Griffin.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, and welcome to the world!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I remember looking around in St. Marks bookstore wondering where you might be lurking! What a decade of blog writing - am really looking forward to reading the book.
ReplyDeleteGriffin,
ReplyDeleteAnother great entry on your blog. Will buy your book.
Donnie
Congratulations, Griffin! Whether written under your actual name or your nom de plume, your blog has been invaluable. I'll be getting a copy of your book. (I also realize I may have just missed you in NYU's MFA--then MA--program in the mid-1990s, since I started it right as you might have been finishing up!)
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear that your self-outing was so you could be more visible/active in fighting the good fight. Thanks for revealing yourself, and let's all do what we can to save the mom-n-pops (says "Mod Betty" as she has to go write an obit on the closing of a 50+ year old restaurant in Delaware... :-( ) / I've already got your book on pre-order from the independently owned bricks and mortar bookstore in the next town over, since we have no bookstore anymore here in our lil Pennsylvania town. Fight the power!
ReplyDeleteJust back from a week in Michigan to find you've outed yourself. Now you wont have to keep all those confusing alternate identities in separate compartments.
ReplyDeleteThis brings your interests in old wooden phone booths into a whole different light!
No need to duck into a phone booth when you want to post something in the future!