- Greg Stekelman
Greg Stekelman (born
February 12 1975 inLondon ) is a British novelist and writerBorn and raised in north London, Stekelman started "themanwhofellasleep.com" in 2001. The website is an eclectic mix of his writing, illustrations, animations and features. The website is popular in the UK and has featured in a number of newspapers, from
The Guardian to the Sunday Times [http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/media.htm] .In 2005
Time Out London started using his Tube Gossip column as a weekly feature under the heading "Overheard Underground".April 2006 saw
The Friday Project releasing Stekelman's first novel; "A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep", based on writing from his website. [http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk/books/view/?id=14]Reviews of "A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep" have been positive, with
Time Out London saying "This odd, excellent, fantastical diary offers a curious combination of dreams, London and deadpan humour, all wrapped in up in a quasi-fictional journal with funny illustrations" [http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/media.htm] .Vice Magazine UK called it "...one of the most imaginative and enjoyable diaries published sinceBrian Eno 's "A Year with Swollen Appendices" and described Stekelman as a "Woody Allen for the Ipod generation" [http://www.viceland.com/int/v13n4/htdocs/literary.php?country=uk] .Zoo Magazine described it as a "surreal, morbidly entertaining novel written as a diary".External links
* [http://www.themanwhofellasleep.com/ Themanwhofellasleep website]
* [http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk/books/view/?id=14/ Friday Project website for A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep]
* [http://www.litro.co.uk/pdfs/TheManWhoFellAsleep.pdf Excerpts from A Year in the Life of The Man Who Fell Asleep in Litro magazine.]
* [http://www.lecool.com/entrevista.php?newsletterID=590&idioma=ENG Interview in Le Cool Magazine]
* [http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2007/10/writers-choic-4.html Profile on Normblog]
* [http://rhodri.livejournal.com/538216.html Rhodri Marsden interviews Greg Stekelman]
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