Michael Jackson's Former Publicist On What It Means to Be a Great Writer ft. Howard Bloom

My guest today is Howard Bloom, as a music publicist in the 1970s and ‘80s he worked with talent like Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Queen, Joan Jett, and more. In 1979, New York Magazine put him in their "Hot 100 plus" list as one of its "Big Dealmakers"

This is Howard’s second appearance on this podcast, in our first interview back in 2023, we discussed his time in the music industry as I tried to understand what made someone a star.

When I reached out to Howard for this interview, it was with the intention of continuing our conversation about the music industry, however, he told me his new book, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong was set to release and he was only taking interviews about that.

That may seem like an odd book for a former music publicist to release, but one thing you have to know about Howard is you can’t put him in a box. You see, Howard left the music industry in the late 80s after suffering a debilitating illness, and after overcoming it in the early 2000s, he returned to his first love of science.

And Howard believes, as Einstein believed, that in order to be an original scientific thinker, one must be a writer, and not just a good writer, but a great one. And so while an in-depth conversation around Howard’s scientific theories would not make sense for this podcast, I was interested in exploring the process of a polarizing writer who is striving for greatness.

And so now without further ado, I am very excited to present to you, my second interview with Howard Bloom.

Get a copy of Howard's book: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Sexual-Cosmos-Everything-Nature-ebook/dp/B0F92TTVND/

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