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DOUG BROD is the former Editor-in-chief of SPIN and TV Guide magazines and a long-time senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. He is currently an editor at The Toronto Star as well as an art-book editor for New York's renowned Pace Gallery. He is the author of THEY JUST SEEM A LITTLE WEIRD and the editor of SPIN: GREATEST HITS, and his essays and criticisms have been anthologized in collections such as GO FURTHER, SPIN: 20 Years of Alternative Music, and THE TROUSER PRESS RECORD GUIDE (multiple editions). He has also written for the New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Details, Fangoria, Input magazine, and The Village Voice, among many others. Previously, he taught journalism at New York University, and as an editor he has held senior positions at Conde Nast, Departures, and the Wall Street Journal. He's based in Toronto.
""There are many revelations in the book and Brod pulls no punches... A fascinating book about a fascinating huckster who, like in one of his beloved film noirs, ends up in tragedy. Tragic, but famous.""--Punk Globe Magazine ""Entertaining... Brod's portrayal is appealingly colorful and eccentric.""--Publishers Weekly ""What an entertaining, bizarre, sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing story. Thank you, Doug Brod, for this great book about an overlooked character in America's gloriously weird history."" --A.J. Jacobs, author of My Year of Living Constitutionally ""[Doug Brod] has written one hell of a book, a witty, cogent chronicle of one of the most noteworthy grifts American culture ever conjured up.""--Glenn Kenny, author of The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface ""Entrancing and fascinating -- an absolute must-read."" --Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl ""More than just a fascinating biography, Born with a Tail is a high-resolution X-ray of America's weird psyche in the second half of the twentieth century."" --Chris Nashawaty, author of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 ""The devil is in the details--and Doug Brod brings them all together in this deeply researched, fiendishly entertaining account on the life of celebrity Satanist Anton LaVey, one of the 20th century's most fascinating pop-culture provocateurs.""--Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen ""This is a delightful and strange portrait of an unusual man, made glorious by Doug Brod's insight and witty prose.""--Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll ""What happens when Satan meets show business? Please allow Anton LaVey to introduce himself. A quizzical cultural icon, this Zelig-like huckster with horns and cape became entwined with a veritable nightmare alley of celebrities, among them Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth Anger, Marilyn Manson, and Sammy Davis Jr. Doug Brod strikes just the right tone as he takes a magnifying glass to this tiny world, and the results are highly amusing. ... I command thee to read [Born with a Tail]...""--Jimmy McDonough, author of Shakey: Neil Young's Biography ""With devilish wit and even tenderness, Doug Brod shows how LaVey's committed cosplaying held a mirror up to the darker parts of America...""--Sean Howe, New York Times bestselling author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story ""You don't have to sell your soul to enjoy Doug Brod's wickedly entertaining take on the incredible true-life tale of master showman and devil's advocate Anton LaVey. If it didn't all actually happen, you wouldn't believe a word!""--Larry Karaszewski, co-screenwriter of Ed Wood and The People vs. Larry Flynt
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