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Moving Foreword: Real Introductions to Totally Made-Up Books Hardcover – 9 May 2019
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A great foreword is more than just a few pages of self-indulgent frippery that comes before a book. A great foreword adds zest. It sets the stage for the page turner you’re about to open, and perhaps even puts you in the locked room where a mystery happens or in the high-button shoes of a year gone by.
A great foreword―sometimes―is even better than the book it precedes.
So why not skip the boring actual-book part?
Moving Foreword is a collection of introductions to imaginary books, written by real celebrities, comedians, musicians, and other writers with something to say. With a real foreword by Rainn Wilson, this book offers a no-holds-barred cacophony of laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, and thought-provoking writing that tackles everything from politics to pop culture, true crime to trout fishing, and Star Wars to skin flicks.
Highlights include:
- Bustin’ Through: Confessions of a Kool-Aid Man
Foreword by “Pop Candy” columnist Whitney Matheson
- Phil Rosenthal’s Who’s the Boss?: My Unlikely Rise to Rock Stardom
Foreword by “Bruce Springsteen” (Phil Rosenthal)
- Keep Your Gaze on Me: A True Story of Social Media, Obsession, and Murder
Foreword by Shirley Manson, lead vocalist of Garbage
- Sock Puppet Mozart: The Life and Gruesome Death of Randy Masterson
Foreword by actor Thomas Lennon
- Vance DeGeneris: An Unauthorized Biography
Foreword by Vance DeGeneres
- Everything You Need to Know About Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife Regulations
Foreword by New Kids on the Block member Jonathan Knight
- Fly Ball: How the New York Yankees Have Changed Lives
Foreword by talk show host Jerry Springer
- Terrible Band Names: A Chronology of Rock History
Foreword by John Ondrasik, a.k.a. Five for Fighting
- God’s Wow, You’re All F***ing This Up Big Time
Foreword by singer-songwriter Mary Lambert
. . . any many more!
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBenBella Books
- Publication date9 May 2019
- Dimensions15.88 x 2.16 x 23.65 cm
- ISBN-101946885819
- ISBN-13978-1946885814
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About the Author
Jon Chattman has jokingly told Tom Cruise to stop hitting on his wife, enjoyed a Reuben sandwich with Randy “Macho Man” Savage, and somehow ignited Snoop Dogg to sing Dean Martin’s “That’s Amore.” Those are just some highlights in this writer/author, marketing expert, online entertainment host, talent buyer, blogger, and man-of-many-hats’s career. Chattman, who is currently chief creative officer and president of Moving Forward Consulting, has an extensive background in the entertainment field, specializing in interviewing and writing about those in the music, film, and television worlds. He has covered various red carpets―from the Academy Awards to the Indie Spirits to the Tony Awards―and interviewed an eclectic mix of celebrities, including Courtney Love, Alice Cooper, Javier Bardem, Aaron Sorkin, Hulk Hogan, and Tracy Morgan. In August 2011, he launched an online music and entertainment series, A-Sides, which featured established and on-the-rise musicians performing a song or two and taking part in an informal conversation afterwards. It debuted on thisisasides.com and has appeared on the Huffington Post, Inked magazine, and USAtoday.com.
Chattman has authored many pop culture, sports, and wrestling centric books, including How the Red Sox Explain New England (Triumph Books, 2013), Superfly: The Jimmy Snuka Story (Triumph, 2012), and Sweet Stache (Adams Media, 2009.) He resides in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Alison, and three young children. His hobbies include binge watching Netflix shows, going to the movies, Star Wars, the beach, listening to Bon Iver and pre–Everything Now Arcade Fire, and he is trying desperately to sever his phone from his hand.
Product details
- Publisher : BenBella Books (9 May 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1946885819
- ISBN-13 : 978-1946885814
- Item Weight : 386 g
- Dimensions : 15.88 x 2.16 x 23.65 cm
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About the authors
Rainn Wilson is a three-time Emmy Award nominated actor, best known for the role of Dwight Schrute in NBC's The Office. He's acted in dozens of other films and TV shows such as (in no particular order): Six Feet Under, The Meg, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Super, The Rocker, Star Trek Discovery, Utopia, Jerry and Marge Go Large, Almost Famous, Backstrom, Galaxy Quest, Blackbird as well as the upcoming CODE 3.
He is the host of the new Peacock docu-series "Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss" in which he travels the world in search of happiness.
Rainn is the co-founder of the digital media company SoulPancake which created thousands of pieces of content and over a billion video views, including viral hits like Kid President, My Last Days, and The Idiots Guide to Climate Change.
He also Co-Founded the educational non-profit Lide Haiti, along with his wife, author Holiday Reinhorn and some Haitian friends. Lide educates hundreds of some of the poorest girls in Haiti and provides tutoring and scholarships as well.
Rainn co-wrote the New York Times bestselling SOULPANCAKE: Chew on Life's Big Questions as well as his comedic memoir, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith and Idiocy.
His newest book is entitled Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.
Jon Chattman has enjoyed a Reuben sandwich with Randy "Macho Man" Savage, somehow ignited Snoop Dogg to sing Dean Martin's "That's Amore," and asked Meryl Streep how she would survive in the event of a zombie apocalpyse. These are just some hightlights in this writer/author, marketing expert, online host, talent buyer, and man-of-many-hats career. He has an extensive background in the entertainment field, specializing in interviewing and writing about those in music, film and the television world.
Chattman has authored many pop culture, sports, and wrestling books including Time Heels (Pitching Publishing), How the Red Sox Explain New England (Triumph Books), Superfly: The Jimmy Snuka Story (Triumph Books), A Battle Royal in the Sky (Pitch Publishing), I Love the Red Sox....(Triumph Books), and Sweet 'Stache (Adams Media). He's appeared on/in various publications and outlets supporting his projects including the Opie & Anthony Show, the NY Daily News, the NY Post, the Chicago Sun-Times and The Howard Stern Show.
Chattman has covered various red carpets from the Oscars and the Indie Spirit Awards to the Tony Awards. He's interviewed an eclectic mix of talent including Hulk Hogan, Courtney Love, Moneybagg Yo, Tracy Morgan, Javier Bardem, Aaron Sorkin, The 1975, Alice Cooper, and Marcus Stroman. In August 2011, he launched an online music and entertainment series A-Sides which features musicians performing a song or two and taking part in an information conversation afterwords. The series has appeared on Huffington Post, Inked Magazine, Medium, and USA Today. Rising musicians and established acts who have appeared on the series include Gary Clark Jr., Joe Perry, Bastille, Duran Duran, Elle King, Jimmy Eat World, Imagine Dragons, Lucy Dacus, Letters to Cleo, and Melissa Etheridge.
Chattman has written for many outlets throughout the years including the NY Post, Inked Magazine, Flypaper, TV Guide, and Wizard. He also created the entertainment site thecheappop, and blogs for The Capitol Theatre.
Chattman is a talent booker and buyer and produces events for non-profits. He was selected as one of the "Rising Stars" by The Business Council of Westchester. He is currently founder and chief creative officer of Moving Forward Connections, a small social media and marketing firm. He lives in Westchester County with his family.
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This book was definitely a particular sort of satire, which I appreciate. It is highly sarcastic, but in an American way rather than a British way. There is a distinct difference, even if by the life of me I cannot explain what it is!
Instead of these fictitious forewords actually reading like actual forewords, they are either a caricature of a foreword or they mock the idea of a foreword. Either is fine with me. It is an interesting concept and there were quite a few that worked really well.
I am pretty on the fence mentally on this anthology overall. It is not quite as funny as I wanted it to be, but it was fun, if that makes sense. There were a few scribbles I really hated, but overall, most of them caused a bit of a lipcurl of amusement, which is all I ask for.
I reckon this anthology would be a great toilet book, a foreword at the time, if you are so inclined. I am not.