Rick Whitaker, an author and editor, has been a part of the New York artistic community for more than two decades, and talks about the current publishing scene, the state of the human project, how to find a publisher, and what it's like to judge books for literary prizes.
Rick is the author of "Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling" (1999), as well as "The First Time I Met Frank O'Hara: Reading Gay American Writers" (2004), and "An Honest Ghost," published by Jaded Ibis Press in 2013, which is a novel consisting entirely of sentences recycled from other books (a literary first which members of the Oulipo praised and John Ashbery chose as a book of the year).
He is Theater and Concerts Manager at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in New York City and creator and editor of ExquisitePandemic.com, a free online literary arts journal now archived at exquisitepandemicarchive.com. He’s also been a judge for the LA Times Book Prizes since 2017. He's finishing his fourth book -- "On Sketchy Sex and Hardcore Recreational Drugs."
