Who me?

"write to please just one person. if you open a window and make love to the world, your story will get pneumonia." - kurt vonnegut

“Or syphilis.” – Russ Josephs. Writer, speaker, strategist and New Yorker in Asia.

I write about my life and the lives of people I’ve met along the way. I also talk about human behavior, personal psychology, and how to live your best life.

Some highlights:

My former sex and relationships column, Sex in the Sub-City, reached up to 40,000 people each month.
My play, The Dick Dialogues, was produced Off-Broadway.
My controversial article about the 2020 election was read – and debated – by hundreds of thousands of people on Medium.
I’ve toured nationally and internationally as a songwriter and musician. My latest is the cult hit Xie Xie.
My fiction and non-fiction has been published in Gotham Digest, The Promethean, Tonic, Soft Currency, Eclectica, We’ll Never Have Paris, Block Magazine and other places.