Andrew Kaufman’s something of a departure from the people I usually talk to as part of the Great Work Interview series. He’s not in business. He’s not in social innovation.  He’s not a business guru.

But he has written one of my all-time favourite books, All My Friends Are Superheroes. (And one, by the way, that Seth Godin posits as a favourite too).This book is sweet, poignant, and hilarious – and responsible for me spending hours with friends trying to figure out their particular superhero persona. (One day I’ll have to tell you about my friend Wendy, The Acid Test).

In this interview we cover all sorts of topics including:

how Andrew finds time and space to write fiction,
how he balances it with his other responsibilities of being a father and a radio and television writer,
the metric he uses to define a good days work,
and how he deals with the 4th-draft-blues.

You’ll like the interview. And you’ll love the book. And even better, he has a new one coming out in Feb. 2010, The Waterproof Bible.

Listen to my interview with Andrew here

The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.

If you enjoyed this post, you'll also like:

1. Great Work Interview: Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership
2. Great Work Interview: Michael Lee Stallard, author of ‘Fired Up or Burned Up?’
3. Great Work Interview Prof. Isaac Getz author of Freedom,Inc
4. Great Work Interview Dan Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind
5. Great Work Interview Jason Fried of 37Signals, author of Rework

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