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Book Keeping: 'Competitive Offer in the Low Six Figures'

'If anything, my kid is getting weirder and funnier,' says this post-punk papa whose memoir led to a six-figure contract

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – January 30, 2007
With his first memoir, Alternadad (Pantheon, January 2007), hipster author Neal Pollack, best known for works like The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature and Nevermind the Pollacks, chronicles his shift to settling down and becoming a dad without completly losing his identity. He also covers his post-baby pot use, concert-going, culinary adventures, vacations and travel. Money plays a major role in the book, from the stress of supporting three people on a writer's irregular salary to finding affordable schooling for his son, Elijah. Pollack takes readers through the early stages of his courtship with his artist girlfriend,...

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