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Michael Malice
Malice on The Tom Woods Show in 2017
Malice on The Tom Woods Show in 2017
BornMichael Krechmer
(1976-07-12) July 12, 1976 (age 48)
Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationAuthor, columnist
Alma materBucknell University
Website
www.michaelmalice.com

Michael Malice (born Michael Krechmer;[1][2] July 12, 1976[citation needed]) is a New York City-based author, columnist, and media personality.

Malice's early life was the subject of the biography Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Gary Dumm.[3]

Early life

Malice was born in the city of Lviv,[citation needed] which at the time was part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[4] Malice is an only child.[4][5] He is of Jewish heritage.[1]

At the age of 2 he moved with his parents to the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.[1][4][5] His father originally worked as a messenger and went to Baruch College to study computers, later working for Merrill Lynch.[4] His father also taught his mother to work with computers.[4] Malice attended Bucknell University.[5][6]

Career

Malice's pseudonym was inspired by nicknames such as Sid Vicious and Poly Styrene that were common within the punk movement and the cultural movement that centered around Andy Warhol, two cultural movements that greatly influenced Malice.[1]

Malice is the co-creator and founding editor of the humor blog Overheard in New York that posts submissions of conversations allegedly heard by eavesdroppers in New York City.[6][7][8] Launched in 2003, the site was inspired by a conversation overheard by co-creator S. Morgan Friedman.[8][9] A book based on some of the site's submissions was published in 2006.[6][8][9]

Malice is also the subject of Harvey Pekar's 2006 biographical graphic novel Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, illustrated by Gary Dumm.[6][7] As the title suggests, the biography deals with the development of Malice's egoic personality, a characteristic that Malice does not dispute.[10][11]

Malice has is the co-author of several celebrity memoirs. He co-wrote MMA fighter Matt Hughes's 2008 autobiography Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History.[1] He co-wrote Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off – and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen (2011) with Michael Fazio, one of New York City's most highly sought concierge to the rich and famous,[1] Malice also co-wrote comedian D. L. Hughley's 2012 book I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America and his 2016 book Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years.[1]

In 2014, he published his first solely authored work Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. It was crowdfunded through Kickstarter and published through Amazon's CreateSpace program.[12] The book is written from the hypothetical first-person view of Kim himself and is a semi-farcical commentary on how he is portrayed to the North Korean people.[1][13][14] Much of the material was based on English language propaganda material that Malice collected while on a week-long trip to Pyongyang, North Korea in 2012.[1][13][14] Malice had previously recounted his experiences of his trip in a 2013 article for Reason magazine.[15] In a generally positive review for NK News, Rob York described Dear Reader as "informative, and surprisingly earnest."[16]

Since 2014, Malice has been a regular guest on the Fox News and Fox Business Network shows The Independents,[17] Kennedy,[18] Red Eye,[18] The Greg Gutfeld Show,[19] The Story with Martha MacCallum,[20] and Tucker Carlson Tonight.[21] He is also a regular guest on The Tom Woods Show podcast[22] and has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience[18] and The Rubin Report.[23] Malice is also a regular columnist at Observer.[24]

In 2017, Malice joined Compound Media as the host of the weekly talk show "YOUR WELCOME."[18][25] The show's name comes from a purposefully misspelled phrase that Malice often tweets, within quotation marks and in all capital letters, knowing that it will illicit responses from people who will feel the need to correct the spelling of "your".[25] In 2018 "YOUR WELCOME" moved to the GaS Digital Network and Malice became the host of late-night talk show Night Shade with Michael Malice that same year.

In 2019, Malice published his second solely-authored work The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics. The book is a historical analysis of the American New Right movement and additionally contextualizes the events surrounding President Donald Trump's win of the 2016 United States presidential election.

Malice is an anarchist[1][23] and in 2014 he wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian about why he does not vote.[26]

Bibliography

  • 2006: Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story (by Harvey Pekar, illustrated by Gary Dumm)
  • 2006: Overheard in New York (with S. Morgan Friedman)
  • 2008: Overheard in the Office: Conversations from Water Coolers, Conference Rooms, and Cubicles (with S. Morgan Friedman)
  • 2008: Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History (with Matt Hughes)
  • 2011: Concierge Confidential: The Gloves Come Off – and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen (with Michael Fazio)
  • 2012: I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America (with D. L. Hughley)
  • 2013: The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health (written by John Durant, with contributions by Michael Malice)
  • 2014: Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il (solely authored)
  • 2016: Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Years (with D. L. Hughley)
  • 2019: The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics (solely authored)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kassel, Matthew (May 28, 2013). "Forever Jong: Writer-Provocateur Michael Malice Takes on the Ghost of North Korea's Eternal Leader". The Observer. New York, New York, United States. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  2. ^ McCauley, Dana (August 17, 2017). "Andrea Tantaros rejects claims her book on feminism was secretly written by a man". news.com.au. Sydney, Australia. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  3. ^ Harvey Pekar (2006) Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, Ballantine Books, ISBN 978-0345479396
  4. ^ a b c d e Pekar, Harvey (2006). Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story. Random House Publishing Group. p. 2-4. ISBN 0307415112.
  5. ^ a b c Buhle, Paul (April 16, 2006). "It's Malice vs. the world". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California, United States. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d Kramer Bussel, Rachel (April 11, 2006). "Michael Malice, Evil Genius, Editor, Overheard in New York, Subject, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story". Gothamist. WNYC. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  7. ^ a b Reilly, Michael (April 1, 2006). "Actual Malice". Wired. San Francisco, California, United States: Condé Nast. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c "Web site chronicles N.Y. conversations". NBC News. New York, New York, United States. Associated Press. August 28, 2006. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  9. ^ a b Costa, Brian (March 9, 2006). "Popular web site gives readers a daily earful". Orange Country Register. Anaheim, California, United States. Columbia News Service. p. 63. Retrieved April 1, 2019 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  10. ^ Kassel, Matthew (May 28, 2013). "Forever Jong: Writer-Provocateur Michael Malice Takes on the Ghost of North Korea's Eternal Leader". The Observer. London, United Kingdom. Retrieved April 1, 2019. Mr. Malice doesn't suffer fools gladly, and neither did Mr. Pekar, whom Mr. Malice befriended through a mutual acquaintance. "He finally met a Jew who was more obnoxious than him," Mr. Malice quipped, explaining that Ego & Hubris, which he never expected to come about, is true to life. But it's only an accurate portrayal, he added, insofar as it represents one part of his identity—albeit a big one.
  11. ^ Corsello, Andrew (October 29, 2009). "The Bitch is Back". GQ. New York City, New York, United States: Condé Nast. Retrieved April 1, 2019. Does Michael Malice admit to being an unreconstructed 33-year-old Ayn Rand Asshole? He does not—he proclaims it. "My reviews were incredible," he says of 2006's Ego Hubris, the story of his life that Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame told in graphic-novel form. "The Village Voice called me 'the face of jackassery.' Your magazine called me a 'slacker genius.' Did you know that? The Onion called me 'a hateful blowhard who touts his genius-level intellect and dismisses most of the world as inferior, deluded, or hypocritical.' They also called me a 'human cockroach,' because I'm indestructible. Which I am."
  12. ^ Malice, Michael. "KIM JONG IL: The Unauthorized Autobiography". Kickstarter. Kickstarter. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  13. ^ a b Kassel, Matthew (February 27, 2013). "Help Michael Malice Write an Autobiography of Kim Jong-il". The Observer. New York, New York, United States. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  14. ^ a b Stevenson, Jim (April 16, 2014). "Q&A with Michael Malice: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il". Voice of America. Washington, D.C., United States. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  15. ^ Malice, Michael (July 23, 2013). "My Week in North Korea - A Soviet-born American tours the Hermit Kingdom and finds humanity in a most inhumane place". Reason. Los Angeles, California, United States: Reason Foundation. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  16. ^ York, Rob. "'Dear Reader': The surprising earnest story of Kim Jong Il". NK News. NK News. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  17. ^ Welch, Matt (21 October 2014). "Tonight on The Independents: Anthony Fisher on Drug War Corruption in Texas, Mark Steyn on American Collapse, John Tierney on Ebola, Michael Malice on North Korea, and Two College Kids Who Got Harassed for Handing out Constitutions". Reason. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  18. ^ a b c d De Pasquale, Lisa (June 27, 2017). "De Pasquale's Dozen with Author Michael Malice". Townhall. Townhall Media. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  19. ^ "Fox Nation: Greg Gutfeld and Michael Malice Break Down Trump's Expert 'Troll Game'". Fox News. New York, New York, United States. January 23, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  20. ^ "Can Trump convince Kim Jong Un to give up his nukes?". The Story with Martha MacCallum. June 11, 2018. Fox News. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  21. ^ "High alert for potential North Korea show of force". Tucker Carlson Tonight. April 14, 2017. Fox News. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  22. ^ "Ep. 1372 Michael Malice on What Left and Right Mean". The Tom Woods Show. March 27, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  23. ^ a b "Michael Malice and Dave Rubin: America and North Korea (Full Interview)". The Rubin Report. October 6, 2017. Event occurs at 15:56. YouTube. Retrieved April 1, 2019. No, I'm an anarchist.
  24. ^ "Michael Malice". Observer. Observer Media. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  25. ^ a b Malice, Michael (October 20, 2016). "Trolling in an Age of Earnestness: Plenty of Stupidity to Go Around". The Observer. New York, New York, United States. Retrieved April 1, 2019. When Twitter troll AsianConservativeMan ("AConMan") writes, "A border wall is unconservative, and it offends my Asian sensibilities. If there's anything you won't find in Asia, it's a big wall," he is playing on the misguided arrogance of the typical political loudmouth. There exist people who actually think they're smart because they notice the "fallacy" within the quote. Citing the Great Wall of China isn't evidence of AsianConservativeMan's idiocy so much as public demonstration of one's own. For similar reasons, the present author often writes "YOUR WELCOME"; the mildly intelligent only catch the "your" while the actually intelligent will additionally notice the needless quotes and capitalization, and deduce intentionality.
  26. ^ Malice, Michael (October 14, 2014). "Why I won't vote this year – or any year". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
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