Who I Did Work for
[page updated 4/8/07]
Some of these were fulltime gigs, others one-shot writing assignments, but for completeness’ sake (unless I’m forgetting someone), here are the Top 40 most important venues and organizations for whom I’ve done professional work, in (rough) reverse-chronological order:
Late 00s:
Radar magazine
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The NYU Journal of Law & Liberty
Early 00s:
The Institute for Humane Studies
The Style Network’s Style Court (found not guilty of dressing like nerd)
The American Enterprise Institute/The American
Miya Shoji Furniture (ad writer)
The American Council on Science and Health, including editing HealthFactsAndFears.com (resulting in various newspaper pieces)
The Donald and Paula Smith Family Foundation (ads/mission statement writer)
Book Builders (literature encyclopedia entries for Facts On File)
The original site known as Rouze, which was later absorbed by Playboy
Late 1990s:
DC Comics (writer of three Justice League stories)
The New York Post (sci-fi book reviewer)
ABC News’s John Stossel Unit
WFUV Radio News (humor and politics monologues)
Early 1990s:
Kaplan test prep (ad writer; also wrote vocab-rich detective stories inspired by Seavey family dog, Uber)
Applause Books (theatre- and film-related books), now Glenn Young Books (editorial assistant; wrote joke footnotes — sometimes used onstage — for Reduced Shakespeare Company)
Seth Godin, Internet marketing “guru” (failed two-week trial period; killed off a character based partly on him in the comic book JLA Showcase, written for DC Comics [see above])
St. Martin’s Press (editorial assistant)
1980s:
Brown University’s Rose Faculty Writing Fellows Program (writing tutor, Class of ‘91)
Norwich, CT Department of Public Utilities (lab assistant, Waste Water Treatment Plant)
Big Y Supermarkets (bag boy)