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  <name><![CDATA[Alan Wieder]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Hello. My name is Alan Wieder. It just so happens that in 2005, the Year of the Rooster, I acted like a real cock. It was an interesting coincidence. I wrote a book about it. It's out now. I'm still kind of a cock, but now I'm a published author, so F.U. Just kiddin'. I love you all.

I am a writer and producer in Los Angeles. I graduated Columbia University in 1995 with honors and once planned on attending a high-falutin’ PhD program in Comparative Literature -–before, through a strange twist of fate, I wound up pursuing a career in decidedly low-falutin’ reality television.

As a producer, I worked on a bunch of schlocky shows that critics liked to claim spelled the end of respectable culture: Temptation Island, Joe Millionaire -- you name it, I was a part of it in some way. Along with my producing partner Steve Sobel, I was one of the creators of the smash-hit My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé for FOX.

Steve and I got a break a few years ago and are now writing feature films for several major studios. Sometimes I miss toying with people's minds for a living. Year of the Cock is my first book.

I was born in Miami Beach in 1974 of an uptight-little-French-lady mother and an obscenely hirsute father. Neither are happy with how they are portrayed in my book. I live with my girlfriend Carley, my three-year-old son Roman, and my rather dimwitted schnauzer Cosmo.

I am no longer obsessed with my penis, which gives me a lot more time to think about my g.f.'s vagina.

Thanks for visiting, and feel free to get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[roth, didion, thompson, (richard) pryor, lessing, plimpton, sterne, beckett, twain, gaddis, cam'ron.]]></influences>    <hometown>Miami Beach, FL</hometown>  <born_at>03/23/1974</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Year of the Cock: The Remarkable True Account of a Married Man Who Left His Wife and Paid the Price]]></title>
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