Dawn: So what are your turn ons?

Neal Pollack: Sexual turn-ons? I don't usually talk about that stuff.

Dawn: Sure - if you want to be specific

Neal Pollack: In public.

Dawn: Oh for crying out loud - you have a naked pic up - you gotta give up a little juice for me

Neal Pollack: There was this item on the Daily Show once where Lynda Carter came up and Jon Stewart said something about how she started his lifelong commitment to masturbation. I would share that sentiment. I've always had this little Wonder Woman fetish. Not uncommon for people my age.

Neal Pollack: In general, chicks in Spandex. Or mousy secretaries wearing Spandex underneath their regular clothes. But I've said too much.

Dawn: Well I have been compared to Wonder Woman - as far as super hero women go. I am more an Isis gal. Um - spandex is not comfortable for women - just letting you know!

Neal Pollack: I like Isis, too, but the show had awfully shoddy production values.

Dawn: Well hell yeah. Who is your favorite author?

Neal Pollack: Well, men make the comics and TV shows. The costumes can be cotton, too. I don't care.

Neal Pollack: My favorite author? I have several. My favorite living writer is Walter Mosley. As far as dead writers go: Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith, Dawn Powell, Joseph Mitchell, H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Terry Southern. There's a long list. Chester Himes, David Goodis. Dickens. Poe.

Dawn: What is your favorite book and have you read it more than once?

Neal Pollack: My favorite book, currently, is Heed The Thunder, by Jim Thompson. And I've read it twice. But my favorite book changes. For years, it was Up In the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. In high school, I swore by Portnoy's Complaint and Breakfast of Champions. What's your favorite book?

Dawn: My favorite book - hmmmm - well you will laugh your ass off, but I love the Narnia Chronicles and the Tolkien Trilogy - the Hobbit of course as well.

Neal Pollack: You are a goober!

Dawn: Yes I am and I love Clive Barker, Don DeLillo and I think it is John Irving something - Cider House Rules and the World According to Garp.

Neal Pollack: I admire Lord of the Rings. My novel has lots of songs in it, too, many of them for no particular purpose, just like the Trilogy.

Dawn: Do you like Tenacious D?

Neal Pollack: Yes.

Dawn: I KNEW IT - and for that matter what kind of music do you like?

Neal Pollack: They're more of a metal-parody band. And they are actual musicians. My own act is more punk rock, kind of by necessity. I would never claim to belong to the Greatest Band in the world.