Dave Astor

I'm an avid reader who started the weekly "Dave Astor On Literature" blog in 2014. Since then, I've written thematic pieces on all kinds of fiction-related topics. Also, I'm the author of the 2024 book "Misty the Cat...Unleashed," the 2017 book "Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time: The Book Lover's Guide to Literary Trivia," and the 2012 memoir "Comic (and Column) Confessional." In addition, I write the award-winning weekly "Montclairvoyant" topical-humor column for Montclair Local in New Jersey, and am the copy editor for the email newsletter published by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, for which I was a board member from 2009 to 2023. I'm not related to the rich Astors! :-)