Today Aimée Davison posted on YouTube a review of my manuscript titled Confessions of a Long-Form Improv Teacher. Aimée worked as a beta-reader for the manuscript as part of her ongoing project called One Hundred Jobs, and she posted this video review in completion of the job.

Feedback from beta-readers of my manuscript has been very positive. I will soon be seeking publishers for the manuscript. If you’re a publisher with interest in commercial publication of this book, particularly with an interest in publishing theater arts books, please get in touch with me to talk.

Just now coming out is a new essay of mine published in ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Volume 68, Number 2. The essay–titled “Introduction to ‘Difficulties in Learning to Apply General Semantics’”–is a companion piece to a transcript I edited of a recording of Alfred Korzybski from 1947. That transcript follows my introductory essay and had never before been published, essentially making for “new” Alfred Korzybski work over 61 years after his death.

You can download a copy of ETC 68:2 from the Institute of General Semantics website.

Click here to download ETC 68:2 and learn more about the contents of the issue.

My latest essay titled “How to Be Less Wrong More Often” was just published in the current issue (66:4) of ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

It explains how to talk with more accuracy, to avoid the humiliating experience of being wrong.

Read the essay & comment »

Today I played a Wall Street passerby and stood in for Jim True-Frost on Episode 09011 (“Gods and Insects”) of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

I also passed along to Jeff Goldblum’s assistant my recent essay titled “The Day Michael Jackson Died” from ETC: A Review of General Semantics. The essay covers the rumor about Jeff’s death which circulated on the same day Michael Jackson passed away.

My recently published essay, “The Day Michael Jackson Died,” is now online! The essay was published in the current issue of ETC: A Review of General Semantics (66:3, July 2009).

To read the essay, go to my Essays page in the Writing section, or just click below:

★ “The Day Michael Jackson Died” by Ben Hauck »

Today I received in the mail Volume 66, No. 3, of the journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics.

In it is included my essay titled “The Day Michael Jackson Died.” I will put the essay online as soon as I get ahold of a .pdf of the essay.

In the meantime, if you’d like to watch the original presentation of the essay at the Across the Generations Conference at Fordham University in September 2009, click here.