JOHN DOLAN • GARY BRECHER • THE WAR NERD

John Dolan is an American poet, author and essayist.

In 2002, he started writing ‘the War Nerd’ column for the Exile, a satirical Moscow-based newspaper, under the pseudonym Gary Brecher, a character imagined as a smart, unhappy data-entry clerk in Fresno.

Dolan formerly also wrote for and co-edited the eXile under his own name. After the Kremlin shut the newspaper down, he was a regular contributor to NSFWCorp and Pando Daily. In 2017 Feral House published The War Nerd Iliad, a modern rendering of the ancient epic.

Since 2015 he has co-hosted the podcast "Radio War Nerd", with Mark Ames. He also writes the podcast's subscriber newsletter.