Paul Slansky’s profiles, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in The New Yorker<\/span><\/em> (where his scathing political quizzes were a regular feature throughout the years of the Bush coup d’etat), The New York Observer<\/span><\/em>, The New York Times<\/span><\/em>, The Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/em>, Newsweek<\/span><\/em>, The New Republic<\/span>,<\/em> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>, The Village Voice<\/span><\/em>, Playboy<\/span><\/em>, Esquire<\/span><\/em> and dozens of other publications.\u00a0Several of his pieces have been collected in anthologies, among them White Noise: The Eminem Collection<\/a><\/span>; <\/span>Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s, From the Pages of Crawdaddy<\/a><\/span><\/em> ; <\/span>and The I Hate George W. Bush Reader<\/a><\/span><\/em>. He worked as an editor at New Times<\/span> <\/em>magazine and The Soho Weekly News<\/span><\/em> (both long defunct), and currently blogs for The Huffington Post<\/a><\/span>. He created the weekly news index format for Time.com<\/a><\/span> in 2008. He is the co-writer of the feature film Picture Perfect<\/a><\/span><\/em> <\/span>(1997), and co-creator of the NBC situation comedy Fired Up<\/span><\/em> (1997-98). His first e-book, The Year of Living Shamelessly<\/a><\/span><\/em>, was published in December 2010.<\/p>\n