Blake Nelson

[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."