David Zweig is a writer and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. He has released two critically acclaimed albums, All Now With Wings and Keep Going. Both albums cracked the Top 20 on college radio playlists and garnered accolades for Zweig, with the press calling him a “symphonic pop prodigy.” An extended music bio can be found here.

Zweig’s debut novel, Swimming Inside The Sun, a modernist tour de force about identity and self-consciousness, was released fall 2009. It quickly gained notice with a rave review from Kirkus calling it a “terrific debut from a talented writer.” The novel was named a TOP 3 BOOK OF 2009 on influential blog BabyGotBooks, and Zweig was the subject of a featured profile in Billboard which covered his numerous creative endeavors.

Currently, Zweig is developing a non-fiction book, related to media exposure and self-consciousness, based on his theory Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome (and its broader concept, The Observing Self), which he first posited in Swimming Inside the Sun. Zweig has been invited to present the theory at numerous prestigious scholarly meetings, including the annual convention of the Media Ecology Association at the University of Maine; the Junge Philosophie Conference in Darmstadt, Germany; the annual symposium of the Institute of General Semantics in New York City; Theorizing the Web conference at the University of Maryland; and the International Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology at the University of North Texas. The theory has also been added to curricula at several universities, including Wheaton College, where Zweig also has lectured. He blogs at MeMyselfandHim.com, which covers the intersection of media, technology, and psychology.

In addition to the book, Zweig has multiple other projects in various states of development, including a documentary, and more music and writing.