| Aaron Michael Goldfarb | |
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| Born | February 10, 1979 New York, NY, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, blogger |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University |
| Genres | Comedy, satire, short stories |
| Notable work(s) | How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide, The Cheat Sheet |
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Aaron Goldfarb Aaron Goldfarb (born February 10, 1979 in New York City) is an American writer best known for his 2010 satirical novel How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide, the world's first self-hurt guide, and his short story collection about "the sexes, sex, and sexiness in New York" The Cheat Sheet.[1]
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Goldfarb was born in New York and raised in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Putnam City North High School in 1997 where he was junior class president and a contemporary of Olivia Munn.[2][3] He then attended Syracuse University where he earned a bachelor's degree in television, radio, and film at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and was screenwriting partners with Tim Calpin, future writer of the 2009 film Assassination of a High School President.[1] There, he also majored in English & Textual Studies where he had both Mary Karr and George Saunders as professors. After college, Goldfarb moved to New York to pursue a screenwriting career.
Goldfarb's first novel How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide was published by Chateau Publishing House in November 2010. Goldfarb has been labeled a "Self-hurt guru" and How to Fail is widely considered the world's first self-hurt guide, the satirical opposite of a self-help guide [1][4] The controversial author of Happy Hour is for Amateurs, Philalawyer, blurbed that How to Fail was "Piss-yourself funny." [5] Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles podcast noted that How to Fail was "reminiscent of a classic that raised eyebrows sixty years ago: J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye." [6] A noted craft beer enthusiast,[7] Goldfarb eschewed book stores and instead spent November and December 2010 signing How to Fail at bars across the East Coast [8][9]
Goldfarb is also the author of the 2011 short story collection The Cheat Sheet. Film students at Goldfarb's alma mater of Syracuse University dedicated the entire 2011 spring semester toward adapting some of these short stories into short films. Goldfarb returned late in the semester for a film festival in which he and some other Hollywood professionals selected a winner.[1][10]
Goldfarb is currently at work on his second novel A Guide for the Single Man.[1] He blogs about his career and the publishing industry at aarongoldfarb.com. He also does work for Seth Godin's publishing venture The Domino Project.[11][12]