On the verge of success, struggling New York City musician Daniel Green has his life’s dream snatched from him. Despondent, Dan seeks solace and answers from the comforts of women, great thinkers from Marx to Kierkegaard, and the security of rice milk. Suffering from a darkly comical state of extreme self-consciousness, Dan begins to lose his grip on reality, and in a meta-fictional twist, the narrative shifts from first to third-person as his depersonalization peaks. All the while, the signs of his existential dilemma become, literally, the writing on the wall, as his studio apartment is increasingly taken over by The Notes he can’t seem to stop writing. Battling loneliness and a mind that can no longer discern between fiction and real life, Dan’s only hope may be the redemptive force of music. In a culture obsessed with tales of winners’ ascensions to the top, Dan Green’s story, defiantly, irreverently, is about what happens when you fail and the roads you take to figure out what next?
Swimming Inside the Sun is available at Amazon.com and in NYC at St. Mark’s Bookshop.
Select List of Magazine Writing:
Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children - New York Times
On the Internet Everyone’s a Fact-Checker, and Jonah Lehrer Learned the Hard Way - The Atlantic
The Humane Audacity of Louis CK - The Atlantic
The (Fairly) Legal Way to Watch Streaming Video From Anywhere in the World - BuzzFeed
Why Americans Can’t Watch British TV Shows As Soon As They Air - The Atlantic
What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have In Common? - The Atlantic
What the NFL Won’t Show You - The Atlantic
iPood: Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Child As a Billboard - Good Men Project
David Foster Wallace Obituary - Radar [pdf]