John Dolan (writer)

For other people with the same name, see John Dolan (disambiguation).

John Carroll Dolan (born July 1955) is an American poet, author and essayist.[1] He has been identified as the once-secret identity behind the pseudonym Gary Brecher, fictional author of the War Nerd column for the newspaper the eXile which has ceased publication. John Dolan writes as the War Nerd, but no longer "in full character"[2] as Brecher, the two identities having merged.

Dolan formerly also wrote for and co-edited the eXile under his own name. After the newspaper's demise, he was a regular contributor to NSFWCorp and then from 2013 to 2015 to PandoDaily, again both as Dolan and Brecher.[3][4][5] He is now featured on the left-wing geopolitics podcast "Radio War Nerd", which he co-hosts with Mark Ames.[6] He also writes the podcast's subscriber newsletter and contributes to the eXiled Online.[7]

  1. ^ "Profile, New Zealand Book Council; retrieved August 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Gary Brecher. "The War Nerd: Escape From East Timor (Part One)", pando.com, May 3, 2015; retrieved August 4, 2017.
  3. ^ "Pando: John Dolan Archived July 6, 2018, at the Wayback Machine," retrieved 26 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Gary Brecher Archived August 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, pando.com; retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ^ "PandoDaily acquires NSFWCORP to double down on investigative reporting". PandoDaily. November 25, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  6. ^ Radio War Nerd podcast – with a few exceptions,* episodes available by subscription only (*free "unlocked" full episodes or short episode previews usually noted accordingly in the written episode summary descriptions), retrieved April 9, 2017.
  7. ^ John Dolan, ExiledOnline.com; retrieved August 3, 2017.