WRITING
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity”
Franz Kafka
TOPICS I WRITE ABOUT
COMEDY
Sometimes I write comedy.
I was on Sacha Baron Cohen's writing staff, so he thinks I do.
SOCCER
I played football (soccer) for Cambridge University and have been writing about it since.
BOOKS
Since 2016 I've written scores of book reviews on a variety of topics. Here are the ones I wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media has transformed society, not always for the best. I've been writing about it for years.
POLITICS
Though I don't write about politics frequently, I have won national prizes for my writing.
JEWISH AMERICA
As an Englishman editing the most storied Jewish newspaper, I have been in a position to explain American Judaism to a UK audience.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
Lewis Carroll
BIO
Dan Friedman is a writer, an editor and a leader in the fight against hate on social media.
Dan is an expert on representing your stories, your ideas, and your organization in the most effective way possible.
Dan was the only Yale PhD on the writing staff of Sacha Baron Cohen and the only qualified soccer coach to have been executive editor at the Forward. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.
CONTACT
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper."
