[4] Nelson began his career writing short humor pieces for Details magazine in the mid-'90s.
These articles, with titles including "How to be an Expatriot" and "How to Live on $3600 a year", explored the slacker West Coast lifestyle.
[5] The mail Sassy received in response was key to the eventual publication of Girl.
Nelson's novel Paranoid Park[7] was made into a film of the same name by Gus Van Sant.
[9] The Seattle Stranger called the Girl/Dream School series "The missing link between Bret Easton Ellis and Tao Lin."