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(...) While I was there, he had a book party at his house for Seth Greenland, a television writer who had just published his fourth novel, I Regret Everything: A Love Story (Europa Editions, 2015). For me, a native New Yorker living in Pittsburgh, the party all too readily fulfilled...

— Chronicle, Jan 7 2016

Modern love is nothing simple, as is illustrated in I Regret Everything, the story of an over-thirty Manhattan lawyer who nurtures a secret poetry career and sadness over how his life has evolved. When he's introduced to his boss's teen daughter, Spaulding, the two hit it off...

— Midwest Book Review, May 22 2015

I am woefully late with this review. I finished reading it quite a while ago and am having to write this review from what lingers, more than a month later. The novel alternates between Jeremy Best, a trusts and estates attorney who writes poetry under a pen name, and Spaulding...

— Unabridged Chick, May 14 2015

Jeremy Best is a Manhattan-based trusts and estates lawyer but is also a published poet under the name Jinx Bell. He likes his job and those around him, but life has been tough lately. When his boss’s daughter, Spaulding Simonson, comes strolling into his office one day, things...

— Life Is Story, Mar 23 2015

In I Regret Everything by Seth Greenland we are introduced to Jeremy Best who is a wills and trusts lawyer with a bit of a secret life. He’s a poet who goes by the name of Jinx Bell and while he has been published in some literary journals he’s never become renowned for...

— Peeking Between the Pages, Mar 23 2015

Q&A: Seth Greenland navigates writing maze of novels, radio, stage and TV Seth Greenland talks about his new novel and exploiting life for his art: 'I try to be a nose-to-tail writer, you know?' If you graphed Seth Greenland's writing career, it would look like an...

— Mar 20 2015

— Mar 10 2015

Moira Macdonald on I Regret Everything Sweeter for Its Shadows: A Bookish Love Affair from Seth Greenland AND THEY MEET, right there on the fourth page; you can almost see the light behind her. He’s a trusts and estates attorney with a sideline in poetry; she’s...

— Mar 7 2015

Jeremy Best is a 33-year-old trusts-and-estates lawyer in New York, on his way to making partner. His staid career choice doesn’t broadcast “courage and a love of danger,” but he has a secret life as a poet, publishing pseudonymously in distinguished literary journals.

— Feb 25 2015

The Angry Buddhist is a mainstream novel by Seth Greenland that will also appeal to many fans of Buddhist fiction. The story revolves around three brothers: Randall Duke is an incumbent Congressman who fakes holding some pretty fundamentalist Christian values to try and win...

— Dec 4 2012

The cover of my copy of Seth Greenland’s new book The Angry Buddhist shows a dreamy Southern California landscape with palms, a red-tiled roof, a desert mountain, and a swath of blue sky. Hovering in the sky is a quote from Curb Your Enthusiasm ’s Larry David: “...

— Nov 19 2012

Alison Powell on The Angry Buddhist. Midnight at the Oasis: Murder and Politics in the Inland Empire THE SMALL, DRY TOWNS that lead eastward from Los Angeles to Indio, across the lap of California, form an island chain in a sea of sand, each with its own biome...

— Jun 9 2012

Seth Greenland is the author of the novels The Bones and Shining City and was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love. His play, Jungle Rot, was the winner of the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theatre...

— Jun 7 2012

This year, my wife and I celebrated Passover in the Mojave Desert. In a rented house on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, we had an intimate Seder with friends as the glaring light lowered into dusk. After the meal, we went outside and marveled at the stars. Away from...

— May 10 2012

At the start of Seth Greenland’s comic novel “The Angry Buddhist” two American women get matching tattoos to commemorate their quickie affair in Mexico. Mr. Greenland notes that it will be harder for the married woman to explain why she has a new manga-style kitten...

— Apr 22 2012

Seth Greenland's "The Angry Buddhist" begins with two sexy American women getting matching tattoos in Puerto Vallarta — and then it swiftly jumps forward into the madcap final week of a congressional race out in the desert around Palm Springs. The incumbent, a wily and...

— Apr 22 2012