Jamie Berger Words

where we’re at, 2020

(above: where we started 2005? / where we’re at 2020)

This site is for published written work by me, Jamie Berger. Hello and welcome.

12/10/20

Finally updating the site. Should be all pretty and rebranded by 1/15/21. Please see also:

http://jamiebergeriec.com

http://15minutesjamieberger.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieberger9/

Bio update 2023:
I don’t feel like updating my bio, so what’s below is going on four years old but all those links below still work. The podcast is lying fallow but the episodes are still up and some are really fun - find a guest you like and give it a try - thanks for stopping by!

Bio in progress:

Bio

I, Jamie Berger (tired of writing third-person autobios) can be found on Facebook, or on Twitter/Instagram @15minsjamieb. I am the host and creator of 15 Minutes: a podcast about fame, which can be found on iTunes and Spotify and pretty much everywhere pods are cast. I also wrote the essay “Peep Show.”

I am also an English/wriiting/test-prep tutor, academic coach, and college admission consultant. For more info, click here:

Yucky third person:

Jamie Berger is the host and creator of "15 Minutes: a podcast about fame," which can be found pretty much everywhere pods are cast or at 15minutesjamieberger.com. Guests have included David Sedaris, George Saunders, Mira Bartok, Sarah Fran Wisby, John Hodgman, Robyn Hitchcock, Beth Lisick, Andrew Leland, Penny Lane, and about 50 others, so far. He also wrote the essay “Peep Show” which can be found online at https://psiloveyou.xyz/@15minsjamieb and is on twitter/Instagram @15minsjamieb. He has graduated degrees in Creative Writing from City College of New York and UMass Amherst, works as a tutor and academic coach at Northfield Mount Hermon and independently, and is returning to writing after an accidental decade-long hiatus.

NOTE:

12/21/17

I, Jamie Berger, plan to update this bio any day now, and take it out of third person. What lies below is from 2006 (as is this pic), which I'm leaving here for the moment because ... I'm nostalgic, I guess.

I currently make a podcast called 15 Minutes: a podcast about fame

and you can also find me on Linkedin or Facebook

or Twitter or Instagram (@15minsjamieb)

and on Medium

... and here's retro, 2006 me:

Jamie Berger moved to San Francisco from New York in 1992 after finishing a masters degree in poetry. In Summer 2005 he moved back east again, where he is pursuing an MFA in fiction at UMass Amherst.

In the ‘90s, his two monologues “Knowing the Questions” and “Regrets Only” had extended runs in both San Francisco and New York. The San Francisco Bay Guardian dubbed him “the SF everyman of the ‘90s.” He never knew what that meant then; what, exactly, that makes him in the new millennium is a question he wrestles with daily. He was a longtime member of OnSite Dance Company. He also co-founded and edited Sportsgeekmagazine.com.

Mr. Berger, who really isn’t terribly fond of writing about himself in the third person, was born in 1964 and raised in Albany, NY. He got his BA from Columbia and his MA from City College of New York, if you're impressed by that sort of thing.

His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeneys.net, The Sun Magazine, The Chicago Reader, Negative Capability, Columbia Magazine, Planet Magazine, The Wave, 7x7 Magazine, Gettingit.com, In Posse Review, Watchword, Devil in the Woods, West Coast Performer, et cetera. His essay “Peep Show,” is anthologized in Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance. His first book, Bo’s Arts was published in June 2006 by Evil Twin Publications.