Greg Stekelman (born 12 February 1975 in
London
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) is a British novelist and writer.
Life
Born and raised in north London, Stekelman started ''themanwhofellasleep.com'' in 2001. The website is an eclectic mix of his writing, illustrations, animations and features. The website is popular in the UK and has featured in a number of newspapers, from
The Guardian
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to the
Sunday Times
In 2005
Time Out London started using his Tube Gossip column as a weekly feature under the heading ''Overheard Underground''. April 2006 saw
The Friday Project
The Friday Project was a London-based independent publishing house founded by Paul Carr and Clare Christian in June 2004. It evolved out of ''The Friday Thing'', an Internet newsletter taking an offbeat look at the week's politics, media activ ...
releasing Stekelman's first novel; ''A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep'', based on writing from his website.
Reviews of ''A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep'' have been positive, with
Time Out London saying "This odd, excellent, fantastical diary offers a curious combination of dreams, London and deadpan humour, all wrapped in up in a quasi-fictional journal with funny illustration
Vice Magazine
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UK called it "...one of the most imaginative and enjoyable diaries published since
Brian Eno's ''A Year with Swollen Appendices''" and described Stekelman as a "Woody Allen for the iPod generation
Zoo Magazine
''Zoo Magazine'' is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and was created on 25 September 2003. It focuses on fashion, art, literature and architecture and is published four times a year. The predominantly German based subject matter has recently expan ...
described it as a "surreal, morbidly entertaining novel written as a diary".
Stekelman's second book, London Tales, was published in November 2011 by Timeline Book
External links
Themanwhofellasleep websiteExcerpts from A Year in the Life of The Man Who Fell Asleep in Litro magazine.Interview in Le Cool Magazine
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1975 births
Alumni of the University of Leeds
21st-century English novelists
Living people
People from Muswell Hill
English male novelists
21st-century English male writers