Creative Writing Celebration

Jim Mullen has written humor columns for “The Village Voice,” “New York Magazine,” “The New York Times,” and “Entertainment Weekly.” His freelance work has also appeared in “Parade,” “People,” and “McCall’s,” among others. He also worked as a writer and editor for Malcolm Forbes. In 2002, he started a weekly syndicated newspaper column for United Media that ran in small weekly newspapers for twenty years.

Jim’s semi-biographical book about living on a former dairy farm in a small town in upstate New York called “It Takes a Village Idiot” was a runner-up for the James Thurber Award for American Humor in 2001 (Jim really wishes David Sedaris hadn’t published a book that year).

His spoof of baby memory books, “Baby’s First Tattoo,” was in its 21st printing the last time he looked. The follow-up book, “My First Wedding,” didn’t sell a copy.

A collection of his “New York Times” fashion section columns (written with Hal Rubenstein) was published as “Nothing Goes With Paisley.” He has been working on his next book, “Helen Highwater’s End of Life Cruise,” off and on for the past twenty years.