In 2019, Alan Good was given a blogging account at Neutral Spaces, an ad-free website for independent writers, which prompted him to write in a new style, more personal, less polished. Mere Malarkey collects his Neutral Spaces pieces along with essays and reviews that appeared in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Bookslut, and Atticus Review, as well as a handful of previously unpublished essays. From the impact of ska on his literary development, to the time everyone thought his aunt really liked cows, Good reviews his life so far with humor and honesty.
Alan Good is a writer and freelance proofreader. His work has been published in Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Atticus Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, to name a few. He is the print editor at Malarkey Books and also runs the extremely small press Death of Print. Educated at the University of Colorado in Boulder and The City College of New York, he taught writing at the Community College of Denver for nearly ten years. He lives in the country with his wife and children. His other books are The War on Xmas and The Sun Still Shines on a Dog's Ass.
