http://www.redbankorbit.com/wordpress/2010/02/writers-and-other-hookers/

Thanks once again to the Huffington Post for giving me some love. Nice to see World Cup fever is spreading.

http://huff.to/c4OEri

Alan Black, author of Kick the Balls dissects the art of the memoir with David Henry stare, author of Chicken, and co-author of The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatics Guide, with Alan Black. Nancy Wiegman rigorously takes Alan and David through their paces.

http://shar.es/mjbgi

The Glorious World Cup Baghdad by the Bay style

http://bit.ly/bhSFom

Alan Black, San Francisco literary legend, and author of Kick the Balls, dissects the part of the memoir with David Henry Sterry, author of the memoir Chicken, and co-author of The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic’s Guide with Alan Black.  Nancy Wiegman puts Alan and David through their paces.

http://kchofm.podbean.com/?s=sterry

social media guru rockstar sree sreenivasan rocked Montclair hard yesterday, turning a dreary suburban New Jersey night into a madcap extravaganza of twitterology, Facebookonomics, and all manner of social media trickeration. the man is a living breathing personification of what he espouses. Because at the very heart, soul and core of all this social networking is generosity, sharing, and an attitude of gratitude. accordingly, sreesree was warm, generous, full of good humor, and produced profuse and sincere thanks throughout the evening. Pardon me for living, but I’m a man who likes a most excellent Thank You. despite some reluctant recalcitrance from the local inhabitants, a plethora of profound cyber 411 was served old-school, right there in the flesh. A small sampling of information superhighway wisdom from sreesree:

Carlos Puylot of Spain. The Barcelona Tarzan has a ‘do is equal parts come in the Barbarian, Prince Valiant, and trailer trash mullet.

I love this website, and the guy who runs it is way cool, david gutowski. i had a blast putting this 2gether.

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2010/05/book_notes_davi_13.html

from a website that helps treat psoriasis naturally. don’t quite see the connection between itchy skin condition & being a teen rent boy, but so it goes.

http://psoriasisnaturaltreatment.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/review-of-chicken-self-portrait-of-a-young-man-for-rent-paperback/

Cool writer dude we interviewed for The Essential Guide to Publishing

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/shaken-by-ja-konrath-press-release.html

Dan Gillmor, Lulu, more ridiculous rejections by mainstream publishing, and the amazing new horizons open to writers.

http://mediactive.com/2010/05/09/why-im-going-to-publish-the-mediactive-book-with-lulu/

our very own Simon Kuper, the most brilliant soccer writer in the world, breaks it all down for you World Cup-wise

http://sectiondesign.co.uk/the-world-cup-predicted-wired-uk

Very excited about the Glorious World Cup getting a very nice shout out from Washington Post

Original article.

Library Journal May 15, 2010

Black, Alan & David Henry Sterry. The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatics Guide. NAL Penguin Group (USA). Make 1010. c. 144p. Illus. ISBN 978-0-451-23020-1. pap. $12
a fun yet informative guide to the World Cup, this inexpensive volume provides group match ups, player and country profiles, trivia, and brief histories to cups of the past. Generously illustrated, the book is ideal for reading on your flight to observe the World Cup firsthand-or for browsing between television viewings….a useful guide to casual or serious soccer fan.

The Glorious World Cup shoutout from MEWS for May 15, 3pm Watchung Bookstore Montclair New Jersey

http://mewsie.org/2010/event-the-glorious-world-cup-watchung-bookstore/

English Teachers Award

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

THE GLORIOUS WORLD CUP: A FANATIC’S GUIDE
Alan Black & David Henry Sterry

The Glorious World Cup is a smash and grab must-have guide to South Africa 2010. World Cup villains and bloody national grudges, country and player profiles, bags of footie history, and lots more. For those who like their soccer with a side of brains, die hard soccer fanatic David Henry Sterry breaks down the divas and the divers, the winners and the whiners, the myths and the madness.

SATURDAY, May 15, 3:00
WATCHUNG BOOKSTORE – MONTCLAIR, NJ

The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatics' Guide

Today is a glorious day for The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic’s Guide. After a sick amount of work in a stupidly short period of time, against seemingly insurmountable odds, our team has finally walked down the runway as jogging out onto the field, ready to take on the world. Yes, our book is finally published today, dropping into the world a beautiful new fledgling with dreams of landing in the hands of scads of soccer mad fanatics all over the world. I consider our saucy, snappy, biting homage to sports guides of yore to be a little like the USA soccer team itself. We’re both serious underdogs. A bunch of scrappy ragtag outsiders going up against the big boys, underfunded and underrated, but full of fiery ferocious passion, at the peak of fitness, with a deep belief in ourselves and our system, looking to shock the world by ending up number one.

May brought the first summer day in 2010, when it’s so hot you sweat just breathing, and the streets shimmer in protest. As we were broiling in the car struggling in the parking lot that was Rt. 3E just outside the Lincoln Tunnel, I was overcome with the hubris of we humans, chanting like ravenous jackals, “Drill, baby, drill!” And I imagined Mother Nature shaking her head in disgust as the latest national unnatural disaster is unleashed. I’m just so angry when I see the pictures and contemplate the massive clusterfuck gushing into the Gulf Coast waters. But then Olive started singing, “American Pie” from the back seat, and I had hope again. Olive is 2 ½. Not 2. 2 ½. May be a most excellent mother. The new book drops on May 4. Doing event at my favorite local bookstore, Watchung Bookstore. And of course another month brings another Sex Worker Literati.


THE GLORIOUS WORLD CUP
A FANATICS GUIDE
Alan Black & David Henry Sterry

I was just going through my back pages on my website, I found this very cool link to an interview. I’m not sure if I posted this here yet, but this is by Violet Blue. I shared a bed with her and San Francisco during Lit Quake. As part of a night of erotica at which I was the master of ceremonies. She was extremely saucy and extravagantly smart. Then I was recently in Richmond Virginia doing a gig with the James Valley Writing Group, Slash, and Valley Haggard, I was in my hotel room I turned on the TV, and BOOM! There was Violet Blue on Oprah, being all smart and sexy.