Greg Olear
Author, columnist, essayist, podcaster, co-host of "The Five 8"
PREVAIL by Greg Olear (Substack)
The Five 8 (LIVE on Friday night)
Prevail with Greg Olear (podcast)
books by greg olear (amazon author page)
Audio Books (audible)
the age of unreality: essays on art & tyranny (anthology, 2025)
the great gatsby (four sticks press centennial edition, 2025)
rough beast (current events book, 2024)
Empress: The Secret History of Anna K. (historical fiction, 2022)
dirty rubles: an introduction to trump/russia (book, 2018)
fathermucker (novel, 2011)
Totally Killer (novel, 2009)
Greg on BLUESKY
BIO
Greg Olear is the L.A. Times-bestselling author of "Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia," which Salon called “essential reading for all Americans.” He has published three novels and a memoir. Both of his novels have been translated into other languages and have been optioned for screen. His column, PREVAIL, is updated three times a week. He is the co-host of the YouTube live show "The Five 8," and the host of an interview podcast, "PREVAIL with Greg Olear." His work has appeared at Slate, Salon, Dame Magazine, Medium, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, and Hudson Valley Magazine, among other places. A graduate of Georgetown University, he lives in New York with his family.