Published by
Free Spirit Publishing. THIS VERSION ONLY is out of print as of 2007.
One of the things that people asked for on this site site was more attention paid to
Teen Angst? Naaah.... I hope this satisfies:
1.
Teen Angst? Naaah... is my first book.
2. When it came out, I learned quickly that if I described it as "a bunch of funny, stupid stories about stuff that happened to me in high school", they got the point. For more refined people who only enjoyed art that pushed the envelope, I would say it was "a bunch of funny, stupid stories about SHIT that happened to me in high school." Those remain good descriptions.
3. The stories in the book span 1990-1999.
4. I wrote the stories between 1996 and 1999, inclusive.
5. A majority of the book originally appeared in the
New York Press, a local alternative weekly, sometimes edited differently or in a wildly divergent form.
6.
Teen Angst? Naaah... didn't work for TV, but we tried. Soon after the book came out, a man named
John Schultz came to New York and we talked about a
TA?N movie. (He bought me a good burger, too; thanks, John.) I left feeling enthusiastic. Then, a few weeks later,
Jane startz Productions, who had a first-look deal with
Miramax Films (this just meant I could say "Miramax" in conjunction with my book), offered to take out an option on the book. (Or maybe Miramax did; honestly, I forget.) An option means that a company pays for the right to try and make a television show (or movie) out of your product within a certain period of time. We had 18 months. Jane Startz Productions brought in a wonderful gentleman named
Ken Lipman; he had helmed the mid-90s cable show
The Secret World of Alex Mack. Unfortunately the project didn't get off the ground and the option expired. Some years later (2005), Ken decided to take another shot and sell the show to
The N cable network, which, in an entirely unrelated venture, I had tried to create music for. This, too, failed. John Schultz went on to direct
Like Mike. Right now the best chance of a
Teen Angst television show or movie getting made is if you make one yourself. I'll host it, I'm serious. (Host as in, host the files.)
7. Any general questions that you have about the book, the characters, whether it's true, etc. should be in the
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