Neal Pollack isn't just a Suicide Girl, he's also a writer. Salon is offering up his, "When Toddlers Get Fired," a bite from his forthcoming (in 2006) memoir, Daddy Was a Sinner, in which he reveals what happens when your toddler likes to eat people and other people think that's not okay.

In particular, Elijah seemed to enjoy biting a sad-eyed little girl named Sophie, with whom he was obviously in love. He wouldn't stop talking about her at home. "Daddy, what's Sophie doing?" he'd ask. Or he'd say, "I bite Sophie!" and start cackling. I found myself having to say, both because it was true and because it was funny, "Elijah, you can only bite girls if they ask you to."

Relatedly, Pollack, along with Douglas Rushkoff, Elizabeth Spiers, Dan Kennedy, and Nell Freudenberger, has an essay in the "I'm Literate Despite These Illiterate Times" tome, Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times.

Bookmark Now contains 25 original essays written by authors who came of age professionally in the last decade. Raised by television, video games, and the internet, they still decided to become writers and readers, producers and consumers of literature at the most media-saturated time in history, a time when books have more competition from flashier distractions than ever before. How? Why? What does this say about the place of books in our hypermedia world?

Jeff_Fries

Humptulips, WA

September 2003

JUN 08, 2005 09:00 PM

I remember thinking his SG profile was real.

Viola

SUICIDEGIRL

North Carolina, USA

JUN 09, 2005 10:26 PM

I saw him give a reading/performance once. He took off his shirt and declared himself God's gift to rock and roll, or something similar.

I almost wish his SG profile was real...

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susannah_breslin

I'm lost

June 2005

JUN 08, 2005 08:22 PM