Bio
My name is Dennis Cass and I want you to be more awesome.
I’m a journalist, author, adjunct college professor, public speaker, book doctor and former literary agent.
My work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Mother Jones, and the online journal Slate.
My first book, HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, was recently published in paperback by HarperCollins.
This site started out as a talk I gave at Carleton College in 2007 called “How To Be Awesome.” While teaching creative nonfiction at Carleton the year before, I realized that the writing advice I had grown up with felt stale and incomplete. Thanks to the internet, the career advice I had been dispensing felt outright wrong.
Dennis Cass Wants You To Be More Awesome is an ongoing experiment to get them both right.
Dennis,
I think it was your desire for me to reach the apogee of my personal awesomeness that kick-started my quest just this red-hot minute for galactic awesomeness domination.
Many years from now, my awsome progeny (that is inhabiting more planets than even Tom Cruise’s) will ask themselves: “just when did great-great-great to the tenth power grandpa kevin start his awsomeness quest?
The answer won’t be found in the stars or the six multi-colored eyes of their children. It will be found somewhere in this awsome environment Al Gore (god bless his holy name) invented; The Internet.
kevin g
Congratulations on your Moby. I was at the Awards last night and “Book Launch 2.0″ was the hands-down show stealer for me. Thanks for making me laugh at my angsty self-promo pain and for being, dare I say it…awesome.