Education
Blachman graduated from Hunter College High School in 1996.
Blachman graduated from Hunter College High School in 1996.
He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and currently lives in New New York Blachman started the blog in his second year at Harvard Law School taking on the satirical persona of a law firm hiring partner". After revealing his identity to the New York Times he earned a book deal with Henry Holt to turn the blog into a novel.
: A Novel was published in hardcover in 2006, and then in paperback by Picador (imprint) in 2007.
The book was in development for a sitcom adaptation at National Broadcasting Company. has been translated into Korean, Italian, Polish, Thai, Hebrew and Russian. Blachman"s journalism and writing has appeared in McSweeney"s, FanGraphs, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Republic, Moment, Lusso, Kveller, The Bygone Bureau, Splitsider, Grin & Tonic, Thought Catalog, The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, SparkLife and Los Angeles Weekly.