![]() Donleavy’s “The Ginger Man,” the comic saga of a ne’er-do-well and the affairs ruined by his own design. The author had never attempted a book before “Oxygen Thief,” but wanted to give it a try, unsure if or why anyone would care about a man who begins his tale by confiding, “I liked hurting girls.” The first half reads like a variation of J.P. He declines to give his exact age, but says - plausibly - that he’s at least 40. Like the narrator of his book, he has spent much of his professional life in advertising. “The book has such an underground feel to it, a nontraditional promotional campaign focusing on these elements makes perfect sense,” the editor said.Īs his readers would assume and his accent suggests, the author says he is a native of Ireland, who has lived everywhere from London to Minneapolis, but has spent the past decade in New York. ![]() Ruby-Strauss is counting on social media (the author himself has a website,, and Twitter feed, and expects that he will give telephone interviews. ![]() Anonymous authors, even ones who meet with reporters, don’t do book tours. Mainstream recognition does not mean you will learn more about him, beyond what he includes in the book. And one of my co-workers will say, ‘Someone dropped off a bag and said it was for you.’” Then I’ll be walking behind the register one day and there’ll be 20 copies. “I have an email address for him and sometimes I’ll contact him and say we’re sold out and we need another 20 copies. “We’ve often talked about the mysterious nature of the person who drops off the book,” Singleton said.
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