Deep Inside Evan Daze

I'm an amateur sexpert, professional dilettante and freelance writer living in Austin, Texas. I was born in 1963. Daze Reader is both a hobby and a business, my own personal dot-com bubble.

I spent twelve years in graduate school and eventually got my Ph.D. in film studies from the University of Wisconsin. Most of that time I spent procrastinating on my dissertation, your basic college-town slacker doing just enough work year by year to avoid getting kicked out. My original plan to become a college professor didn't pan out. The job market for college professors in film studies is poor, and academic life didn't interest me enough to pursue one-year adjunct positions at podunk schools. In retrospect, ditching academia was a great decision (even if I didn't have much choice in the matter).

I'm still something of a career student, but leaving academia gives me the freedom to read more widely. Favorite authors (in roughly chronological order): Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Edith Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. LeGuin, Elmore Leonard, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Haruki Murakami.

I play Scrabble at a local club and occasional National Scrabble Association tournaments. My NSA rating is around 1500. I frequently play online at the Internet Scrabble Club under the nickname "basset".

My Amazon Wish List. No, I don't really expect anyone to buy me stuff.

Evan Daze is not my real name. It's a pseudonym. My girlfriend sometimes calls herself Yvonne Dazette. I'm pretty sure that's fake too.

My email address is dazereader@aol.com. Drop me a line to say hi or suggest a link.