About Me
Ricky Opaterny has worked variously as a literary agent, book designer, journalist, copywriter, fact checker, tutor, and bookseller. He is currently working on a novel about four friends from San Francisco, one of whom is compelled by his wife’s death to live his life in reverse. Ricky has attended UCLA, UC Berkeley, the University of Toulouse, and Stanford University. In 2005 he received national press coverage for his role as the founder of a successful movement to save Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, which closed in August and reopened in October. His writing has recently appeared in NYTimes.com, the magazine U.25 and the book Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. Ricky worked most recently for Google, an Internet search engine-type company, where he ran the Authors@Google program. He is currently a graduate student in business.
He used to work at the following places related to books and publishing:
San Francisco magazine
Metropol Literary
Housing Works
McSweeney’s
The Believer
Here is an old passport photo of Ricky.
Here is an article about what he did in the fall of 2005.
Here is an article about what he did from 2005-2008.
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This is Ricky’s personal blog. The views expressed on these pages are his alone and not those of his employer.
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