Pothead
My life as a marijuana addict in the age of legal weed.
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Thirteen semi-bestselling books. Essays, journalism, and humor. And now, a whole universe of superheroines.
Fiction. Nonfiction. A little of everything.Currently editing the Arizona Globe
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COSMICA
An epic romantic comedy
superheroine series
Smithsonian archivist Claire Rosslyn becomes Cosmica. Soon, Solara and Lumina join her in a growing superhero sisterhood.
AI-assisted, but Pollack-written and exhaustively directed—because no machine can write as well as him.
The bookshelf · 2000–2022
Thirteen
Semi-bestselling Books
Novels, memoirs, literary parody, yoga mysteries, and a trip to a gentrified Mars.
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Edge of Safety
A dystopian satire of arbitrary lockdowns and the deeply caring citizens who love them.
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Repeat
A time-traveling romantic comedy about second chances.
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Alternadad
The memoir of hipster fatherhood.
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
The literary parodies that made him the self-proclaimed Greatest Living American Writer.
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Beneath the Axis of Evil
One man’s gonzo journey into the horrors of war.
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Never Mind the Pollacks
A rock-and-roll novel.
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Jewball
A noir about Jewish basketball players in the 1930s.
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Stretch
The unlikely making of a yoga dude.
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Downward-Facing Death
A Matt Bolster yoga mystery. Murder on the mat.
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Open Your Heart
The second Matt Bolster yoga mystery.
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Keep Mars Weird
Sci-fi satire in a futuristic Austin, Texas—and on a gentrified Mars.
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Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
A Hollywood memoir.
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Essays, journalism, and humor in every English-language publication except The New Yorker.
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Book and Film Globe
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The Spectator
Senior editor, U.S. edition
About Neal
My life
in miniature
Neal Pollack is the author of 13 semi-bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction, the editor of the Arizona Globe, and the creator of COSMICA.
He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the painter Regina Allen, and a varying number of Boston Terriers.
He is a three-time Jeopardy! champion and the 2026 champion of the Jeopardy! Bar League with his team, Post-Trebek Stress Disorder.
The “Greatest Living American Writer” thing has been going on since 2000.