December 25, 2008



 



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"Young and in the Way" [review of Neal Shusterman's book Unwind]
New York Times
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States Need to Follow Harvard: End Loans Completely
Huffington Post
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Review of "Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps"
The L Magazine
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"Adventura" [short story]
Word Riot
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Occupational Oppression (dirt bagger job)
SMITH Magazine
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Recommendation: It's Every Child's Duty to Lick a Dangerous Toy!
Huffington Post
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"Mom" [short story from The L Magazine's 2nd Annual Summer Fiction Issue]
The L Magazine
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Clink Slammer Hoosegow
SMITH Magazine
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Hocus Potus [review]
New York Press
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Where the Wild Things Are
The New York Sun
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"Beauty" Short Story [I like how this one came out]
3:AM Magazine
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The Page 69 Test: It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Page 69 Test
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An Impelling Force: Impetus Books
Bookslut
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The Problem with Fram
Huffington Post
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Interview with Rasmus Holmen
Largehearted Boy
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High Anxiety [review of American-Born Chinese and Stuck in The Middle]
New York Times
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Man (My second published poem)
Dogmatika.com
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My Small Movie Date Story
SMITH Magazine
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Interview with Tao Lin
Bookslut
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Review: Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Bookslut
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Interview with Lexy Benaim (Harlem Shakes)
Largehearted Boy
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"Nose" - a short story I got paid $30 for!!
Underground Voices
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Working Class
Writer's Digest
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BOOKS WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT (5 favorites of mine) (scroll down to see)
hipsterbookclub.com
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"Drum 'N' Bass" [poem]
Dogmatika.com
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Straight Talk on Antidepressants [panel discussion]
Sirens Magazine
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Ned Vizzini's Five Favorite Songs
3:AM Magazine
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An Interview with Nick Antosca
Bookslut
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The Three Best Books of 2006
Professor Barnhardt's Journal
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My First Kiss
SMITH Magazine
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05/01/2007
My third book: depression and redemption in the psych hospital.
"Insightful and utterly authentic... This is an important book." - New York Times Book Review
"Comparisons with Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar seem inevitable... The overall message that depression is not shameful, and that sufferers are not freaks of nature, is beautifully handled." - Bookmunch
"It's terrific: funny, incisive, disarming." - New York Magazine
"The wise, witty narrator and sensitive handling of a hot topic should win over older teens--and their parents." - People Magazine
"Funny... [Vizzini] supplies personal insights and a clever, self-deprecating tone that make the book an entertaining read." - The Washington Post
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April 1, 2006
"The book is TERRIFIC – I just loved it and will recommend it all over the place to teen and adult readers. You have a unique ability to convey deep and complicated feeling through simple, funny and sweet prose." -- Rachel Cohn, author of Gingerbread, Shrimp, The Steps, and Two Steps Forward
"I wanted to tell you how much I liked It's Kind of a Funny Story. Your descriptions of depression are so accurate and heartbreaking. One of my favorite metaphors was on the first page when you describe trying to talk like words coming out in chunks from a crushed-ice dispenser. So true." -- Ariel Schrag, creator of the graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise
It's Kind of a Funny Story is my third book. It's the story of Craig Gilner, a kid in high school who gets freaked out, wants to kill himself, and checks into the psych hospital. The book details the week he spends there and how he gets his life... well, not together. But alive.
It's based, not too loosely, on my own experience on the good ol' adult psychiatric floor of Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, which I entered when I wanted to kill myself in November 2004. Yay! I've managed to stay out since then, although I've wanted to go back many a time.
There is a Myspace for the book at myspace.com/ikoafs. Press for the book is posted as it appears right here.

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September 14, 2005
[click cover for hi-res image]
Be More Chill is the story of a guy who gets a pill that makes him cool. The pill is called a "squip"--it's actually a quantum computer that lives in your brain and gives you real-time social advice. The kid is named Jeremy Heere. And that's about what you need to know.
"A fresh, spontaneous and original voice. It's fun, wacky, outrageous. I just couldn't stop reading."
-- Judy Blume
For more about the squip itself and the campaign that went along with it, watch the squip video (warning--it may take a while to load).
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© Ned Vizzini 2000-2008
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