(Are we still using the word video?)

After writing a book with Rhett and Link, I was delighted to appear on Good Mythical More and try to guess which Ben & Jerry’s flavors were real. It was fun, even though our guessing wasn’t amazing.

In Denton Little’s Deathdate, Denton talks about performing a song he wrote at the talent show, after which he and Taryn got together. This is that song.

In March 2020, I was scheduled to do a school visit at Brooklyn’s Center for Fiction for students at Mark Twain Middle School. The pandemic happened, and that visit was canceled. But the students sent me lots of smart questions about Crying Laughing, and I made this video answering all of them. It was a nice moment in the midst of a dark time.

Before I was a professional writer, I was a professional actor, and this is the biggest TV/film role I ever had, on an NBC hospital show called Mercy. I portrayed Trevor Wilensky, a patient with a naked sleepwalking disorder. (If you watch the clips, you’ll see what I mean.) It was a really great experience. Victoria Clark played my mom! She’s lovely. After I filmed this, I thought, “Now here’s the moment when my acting career really takes off!!!” Alas, it was sort of the opposite, and less than 2 years later, out of a feeling of frustration and powerlessness, I started writing Denton Little’s Deathdate.