Literary Firsts

Ethan Gilsdorf is the Somerville, Massachusetts-based author of the award-winning travel memoir/pop culture investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, now in paperback. He also publishes travel, arts, and pop culture stories regularly in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and other magazines and newspapers worldwide. He is a film and book critic for The Boston Globe, his blog “Geek Pride” is seen regularly on PsychologyToday.com, he teaches creative writing at Emerson College and Grub Street, and he has been guest on talk radio and spoken at numerous conventions, book festivals and universities. You can follow his adventures (and read more about his book) here.

Ethan is the confessional writer for the April 18 reading.