Non-Fiction

Years ago when in high school, I enrolled in a journalism elective. I took the course simply because journalism fulfilled an "academic unit," meaning that unlike shop class or art, the grade bolstered my class rank and grade point average. The class centered on newspapers and reporting and one requirement was participation in the rarely published high school paper. The class turned me off journalism, and for years afterward, non-fiction was just too close to journalism for me to take much interest in it. Of course now I publish New York's Sixth, a semi-journalistic blog focusing on Jersey City. In any case, I avoided non-fiction writing up until about year ago when I wrote up a few events from my rather ordinary childhood in narrative form. The results of these experiments are below:

Biographical
Straitjacket
Top Milk
Ring Dings
Fight Club
The Last Birthday Party
Head Injuries
Fictional Origins of Coleslaw

Travel
Italy
Whale Watching
Coney Island
Coney Island Redux

About Ian

I grew up in the suburbs of northern New Jersey. My parents were quasi-hippies turned yuppies. I wasn't allowed to watch commercial television, exceptions being made for MacGyver and reruns of The Waltons. I was, and I am, a dork. When I was eight or nine I was thrown out of a birthday party.

I played youth soccer for a while, but wasn't very good. In high school, I was in the drama club and hung out with the kids in marching band. In college I drank alot, and worked on the literary magazine. Now I work as a graphic designer for a small consulting firm. I live in Jersey City.

Fiction

While an undergraduate at Rutgers College, The Anthologist, the Rutgers literary journal, saw fit to print The Little Dog, Jesus, Panama Love, Butterfly Empire. Since then, I have periodically distributed a zine ineptly titled MacAllen Quarterly.

Home Again
Confessional Fantasies from a Billing Office
Cocktail Revolution
Mothers
The Pen Is Mightier
Roses for Nancy
Butterfly Empire
Jesus, Panama Love
The Little Dog

Contact

Email: ianmac47 [at] hotmail.com or gmail.com

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