'Zachary German’s nimble, catwalking, archeological, surface dwelling, emotionally unpaved prose is a thing of total wonder and my favorite drug, language-based or otherwise. Eat When You Feel Sad is so bright and pleasurable and full of excellence, it’s positively serene.' -- DC
Official release date: February 9, 2010
You can preorder it now and here
Official release party: February 9, 7:30 pm, Word Books, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY featuring a reading by ZG and a live interview conducted by Tao Lin, more info
Field Day
* every time a police officer gets shot i throw a party
* Eat When You Feel Sad: Official Website
* EWYFS, excerpts from an early draft @ Bear Parade
* THENAMEOFTHISBANDISTHETALKINGHEADS
* Haut or Not: Zachary German @ HTMLGIANT
* Zachary German interviewed @ Publishing Genius
* Zachary German interviewed @ rhombus trapezoid disaster
* Zachary German's stuff @ vimeo
* FO!: a tribute to zachary german
* Re: 'The Zachary German Show' by Ellen Frances
* a poem about new york city’s organic vegan restaurants
* THERE IS A GIRL IN PORN CALLED LIZ VICIOUS AND I LIKE LIZ VICIOUS
* the nike swoosh is beautiful
Merch
The official Eat When You Feel Sad t-shirts
Try to score one here
Media: People eat for ZG
Jimmy Chen
Adam Humphrey
Tao Lin
(more people eating)
Media: Miscelaneous
Ellen Frances 'Zachary German'
Tao Lin 'Zachary German @ KGB'
The Golden Bear 'A Title Shot for Mr. Zachary German'
trvsgstn 'cliff jump 2'
Zachary German 'how to beat alcoholism'
The Disparagers' Corner
Ed Lister: ... Zachary German, a real self-righteous little hipster fuck who writes trash like this... i don't like the avocado ciltrano soup / i got it one time and thought ' i should / have asked for a free sample of this' / i ate it all anyway / now i'm okay ...and gets rave reviews for his 'poetry' by hipster peers in shitty online magazines who no one except the contributors actually reads however I don't think anyone could be that pathetic.
Crazy Joe: Seeing that fuck (Zachary German's) hair almost makes me want to shave mine. Our hair is very similar, brown, wavy-curly, and thick, and I don't like this revelation one bit. I shall now post this message and leave this thread, never to return.
Poppy: Wow. I defended Tao (Lin) in the original thread, but he really needs to distance himself from this Zachary (German) douche. If you use the Internet for most of your marketing, you've got to realize the Internet can give you bad PR, too. Having a friend/ally who is an unapologetic Kramer of the Internet isn't helping you sell books.
Collie: I know Zachary German too, he isn't homophobic, he is just a creepy person. He is sycophantic and weaselly and desperate to be liked. He imitates Tao Lin and "acts out" to get Tao Lin's approval and attention. Tao Lin loves attention and "followers" so he encourages German. German is four or five years younger.
Anonymous: I do hate Tao (Lin's) lesser writer friends like Brandon Scott Gorrell and Zachary German, but they're just little imitations of Tao and their blogs suck and no one reads them, and no one cares, so what's the point of hating them?
Erik Shonkwiler: If I've got the story straight, Zachary German is or was a 19 year old when he wrote the linked stuff. It's being published by FSG--if you're unfamiliar, they're big. And he has a blog titled "Every Time a Police Officer Gets Shot I Throw a Party." Which makes me want to beat the piss out of him. Eat, which is how I'll abbreviate it, reads like Tao Lin and Noah Cicero, both of whom I've mentioned before. I don't know if this is the new shit, I don't know if one person started it and the others followed suit or if they pulled some morphic field crap and it hit them all at once. But I'm tired of it already.
The book
Eat When You Feel Sad
Zachary German
Melville House
All the sad young pop-culture-saturated hyperliterary men mope their way under our skin, one deadpan, declarative sentence at a time.
'Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about Robert. Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a generation. Robert was born in the 1980s. He was born in the United States of America. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert feeds his cat, watches television and drinks beer. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert gets mustard on his clothes, rides a bicycle and talks on Gmail chat. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in cars, houses, and apartments. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in a school, a community center, and several Chinese restaurants. Eat When You Feel Sad is a selection of scenes from a life.
'Eat When You Feel Sad will be found on a short shelf of short literary novels that includes Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Tao Lin's Eeeee Eee Eeee--where young people seek their own reflection, and face reality with humor and hope.' -- Melville House
Excerpt
----Robert’s parents have a Halloween party. There are fake cobwebs and fake spiders. Robert’s parents and Robert’s parents’ friends wear costumes. Robert wears a costume. He feels happy. He sits on the couch. Robert eats peanuts and small hotdogs. He drinks soda. He goes to bed.
----Robert and Gregg are at an arcade. Gregg plays Silent Scope. Robert looks at Gregg. Robert says “Do you want to go?”
----Gregg says “Yeah. I’m going to die soon.”
----Robert says “Okay.” Robert and Gregg walk to a record store. Robert looks at CDs by Sublime, Green Day, 311, Less than Jake and Weezer. Robert looks at the CD Neon Ballroom by Silverchair. He thinks “I don’t know if I should buy this.” Robert walks to Gregg. Robert says “Do you want to go?” Gregg buys the album Pinkerton by Weezer. Robert doesn’t buy anything.
----Robert is in health class. It hasn’t started yet. Robert feels happy. He is reading Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut. Anthony says “So Robby, I heard you started, you know.” Robert looks up from Deadeye Dick.
----Robert says “Yeah?”
----Anthony says “Yeah. That’s great man. About time, you know?”
----Robert says “Yeah I guess.”
----Anthony says “I can see you don’t want to talk about this. Just one word of advice man: baby oil.”
----Robert says “Thank you.” Anthony leaves. Robert looks at Deadeye Dick. He thinks, “I wish Anthony hadn’t said that.” He thinks “That was weird.”
----Robert and Tim are in a line outside a movie theater. They are talking about girls in their school. Robert thinks “I am surprised I can talk like this. Am I like everyone else? I don’t know what I want.” They are in front of the line. There is a man behind a glass window. The man is Indian. Tim says “One for Fear.com.”
----The man says “ID please.”
----Tim says “Um… I don’t have it with me.”
----The man says “You have to be 17 or be accompanied by an adult to see R-rated movies.”
----Tim says “Oh yeah.” He turns around. There are people in line. Tim and Robert leave the movie theatre. It’s bright outside. Tim says “That’s some bullshit.”
----Robert says “Yeah.” They are near a record store.
----Tim says “We should have asked to see that guy’s green card.” Robert laughs.
----Robert says “Yeah.” They walk to the record store. Tim looks at CDs by Marilyn Manson, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine and Sepultra. Robert looks at twelve-inch singles. Tim walks to where Robert is standing. Robert says “Your mom gave you money for both of our tickets. Buy me these records.” Robert shows Tim Zero 7’s The Waiting Line twelve inch single and The Prodigy’ Baby’s Got A Temper twelve inch single.
----Tim looks at the records. He looks at Robert. Tim says “Okay.”
----Robert is at Alex’s house. There is a party. Robert feels his heart slightly beat faster than usual. Robert and Nina talk. Robert thinks “It’s easy to talk to Nina because Nina’s a slut or something.” Nina leaves. Robert is sitting on the couch. Austin Powers: Goldmember is on. Robert looks at Austin Powers: Goldmember. He looks at Kevin. Kevin is smoking marijuana. Robert thinks “I want to die.” Robert thinks “Maybe this party is cool. I’m glad I’m at a party and not just like in my room I guess.” He thinks “Should I smoke marijuana?”
----It’s Christmas. Robert’s aunt and uncle give Robert a wrapped present. Robert opens it. It’s The Shins’ album Oh, Inverted World on vinyl and a t-shirt that says the words “The Shins” and has a stylized picture of bulls. Robert says “Thank you.”
----Robert’s aunt says “Here, this came too.” She hands Robert a wrapped present. Robert opens it. It’s a Sub Pop label sampler CD.
----Robert says “Thank you.” He says “Thanks a lot, John and Sue.” Robert is smiling. Robert’s aunt and uncle are smiling. Robert’s family goes home. Robert’s parents go to bed. Robert makes tea. He takes tea to his room. He puts the Sub Pop label sampler in his computer. He listens to the Sub Pop label sampler. He thinks “I like the song Things I Don’t Remember by Ugly Casanova, Out of the Races and Onto The Tracks by The Rapture, Bandages by Hot Hot Heat, and Finish Line by Rosie Thomas.” Robert makes a playlist of those four songs. He listens to the playlist. He lies down. He looks out the window. Snow is falling. It’s warm inside. Robert feels happy.
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