Writing
Forthcoming Work
- Identity Thief
- A Novel
- Read Chapter One
- “Blue Balls”
- A Short Story
- Take a peak at the front cover
- Forthcoming in Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, edited by Ellen Sussman, Bloomsbury, Summer 2008.
Novels
- Child of My Right Hand
- Sourcebooks, 2004
- Read the Prologue.
- Awards: Silver Book of the Year Award in 2004 for Best Gay/Lesbian Fiction from Foreward Magazine.
- Here's the link to Child of My Right Hand at Amazon.com.
- In Days of Awe
- Knopf, 1991
- From Publishers' Weekly: “readers will enjoy this introspective yet briskly paced novel that never takes itself too seriously.”
- The Publishers' Weekly passage in its entirity, plus an opportunity to buy the book, at Amazon.com
- The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall
- William Morrow & Co, 1983
- “Eric K. Goodman is an extraordinary writer who has an extensive musical background, both classical and popular. He has traveled with groups and bands and as a result of his experience, he probably knows more about the whole rock scene than anybody else—and writes about it more effectively than anything I have read in the last fifteen years.”
—John Hammond, the legendary rock impresario who signed both Dylan and Springsteen to their first contracts for Columbia Records.
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- High on the Energy Bridge
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers, 1980
- “Credit Goodman with high marks for originality and a vivacious imagination in his quirky first novel…a zany screwball comedy with Humphrey and Susan as very appealing characters.”
— Publishers Weekly.
Travel Journalism
I've been writing about international travel, food, culture, and now, golf! since 1985, when I lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Ubud, Bali for the year. I was the first American journalist to publish a feature about the as-yet unknown-to-the-West Thai tourist island of Phuket. I've since been back to Southeast Asia more than a dozen times, and have published more than 100 such articles in publications including Travel & Leisure GQ, Saveur, Travel & Leisure Golf, Los Angeles Times Traveling in Style, Departures, Buzz, California and many others.
Here are two articles that have just appeared. Both of these articles, as well as several others that will appear during the next few months, grew out of the year I just spent living in Luxembourg.
- Belgian Beauty
- Read the beginning of Belgian Beauty
- Read the whole article on the Travel & Leisure Golf website.
- The Peripatetic Gourmet
- Read the beginning of the Peripatetic Gourmet.
- Read the whole article on the Departures website. (Subscription required.)