Most of my writing is extracted in private in a darkened corner of my fur-lined lair. Perfect for people-watching or more honestly, girl-watching. But when I do venture out, one of my favorite places is Café Pick Me Up on Avenue A and 9th Street. Mind you it might just be laptop-envy on my part. I’m not sure I’m socially equipped to sit in a cafe these days. The Helmholtzplatz in Berlin is a close second but only because it reminds me so much of Tompkins Square Park.ĭo you have a favorite place to write here? Are you able to accomplish much sitting at, say, a café or a library? The area around Tompkins Square is my favorite place in the world. I’ve always wanted to live here and I‘m very lucky to have found a rent-controlled building that welcome the likes of me. I’ve lived here altogether now for about 10 years - with a break of three years when I moved to Amsterdam. How long have you lived in the East Village? This way your content and marketing merge into one. My best advice to a self-published writer is to try to say something that established publishers can’t or won’t. What is your top advice for someone considering self-publishing his or her work? It actually makes for a more satisfying experience. Because we can’t Google anyone we’re forced to make up our own minds about what’s happening in the narrative. In this case the story is the hero.Īlso writing anonymously allows me to inhabit the reader more effectively. I love that there’s no cheesey photo on the backcover and that we don’t have to hear about how the writer lives in Connecticut or San Francisco or Brooklyn or wherever with his two dogs and a cat. And now I’m already working on a third in the series a prequel to "Diary Of An Oxygen Thief." Collectively they’re known as "The Oxygen Thief Diaries."Īs a writer, do you envision continuing to remain Anonymous?īeing anonymous is part of the story. That’s when "Chameleon On a Kaleidoscope was born. But of course a diary has no finite ending and so it became obvious that there would be a second. I wanted to give the reader the impression they were eavesdropping. My original intention was to write a book that felt like somebody’s diary. While writing "Diary of an Oxygen Thief," were you already looking ahead to a second novel picking up where this one left off? So via email, we asked Anonymous a few questions about the new novel, self-publishing and life in the East Village. Turns out that Anonymous lives in the neighborhood. (Find more information about both books here.) Because of his sense of self-loathing he seems to go through life unworthy of the very air he breathes.ĭiary of an Oxygen Thief quickly became popular from its initial publication in 2006 to 2016 where it was listed on both Amazon and iTunes 20 top selling books.The book, released earlier in the year on Kindle, is available as a hard copy starting next week. The "Oxygen Thief" in the title refers to narrator's low self-esteem. Later, he meets a young, aspiring photographer in New York and falls in love with her. Internally he grapples with paranoia, addiction, and a legacy of pain. After taking a job in the United States, the narrator is confronted externally by the absurdity of corporate America, culture shock, and the conflict of moving from the lower to upper-middle class. After the narrator starts attending AA meetings, he sobers up and looks back on his past relationships with a measure of remorse. Purporting to be an autobiography, Diary of an Oxygen Thief begins with the narrator, an Irish advertising executive living in London, describing the pleasure he used to receive from emotionally abusing women. Diary of an Oxygen Thief was called a "surprise dark-horse Williamsburg best seller" by New York Magazine, referring to the independent art, literature, and music scene in Brooklyn, New York. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI.
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