Not The Sharpest Tool
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TALES FROM NOWHERE
A chapter of the above made it into a travel anthology published by Don George with Lonely Planet.  You should buy the book - not because of my chapter - but because it has lovely writing by real-life writers like Tim Cahill, Simon Westchester, Pam Houston and Pico Iyer.

They recently printed a second edition which is available here on Amazon.
Not convinced this will win a Nobel for Literature?  Or even a Pulitzer?  Here is the first chapter...entirely free!!!

Also, my agent, Jeff Kleinman, suggested I put something on this site for folks to receive a simple email when it comes out.  I will never ever give or trade your email address. That would be shitty.




About This Book: A Beginner's Guide to Paradise is a wish-fulfillment memoir like Under a Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence but with more jokes - and snorkeling!  When Alex’s life isn’t working, he concocts the idea to buy a one way ticket to the South Sea island of Yap and takes along 100 "Great Books" in order to learn what is most important to him - take away electricity and friends and see what he misses most, that kind of thing.  




From tying a loin cloth to building a house on an outer island with fourteen friends, this humorous, how-to-fantasy book will either inspire you to move to your own paradise in the Pacific or confirm that staying at home was the best choice all along. Either way, you will discover what to expect – and what books to bring along - if you too decide to give it all up and move to the South Pacific.

This book will be published in the fall of 2015 (Penguin Random House).
9 Steps to Giving Up Everything So You Too Can:

-Wear a Loincloth
-Read a Hundred Books
-Diaper a Baby Monkey
-Build a Bungalow &
-Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! *

* Individual results may vary.


A Beginner's Guide to Paradise