Gaits of Eden
The online HQ of author Dawn Eden
*** For information on my book and upcoming talks, to contact me, or to contact my speaking agent, visit thrillofthechaste.com.***
*** Watch the video of my March 3, 2008, appearance on NBC's "Today" show and read the article I wrote for MSNBC.com.***
Welcome!
I am the author of The Thrill of the
Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes
On, and I blog at The Dawn Patrol. My "Tour of the Chaste" has seen me speak to young-adult groups and college students from UC Berkeley to Notre Dame, Georgetown, Yale, University College Dublin, Farm Street Church in London, and about 60 places in between.
At the time I wrote my book, I was working as an assistant (later deputy) news editor at the New York Daily News. Before that, as a copy editor for the New York Post, I penned a headline that won the 2004 New York State Associated
Press Award).
Photo by Kristina J. Grabosky.
Click on the Gaits of Eden logo at top for the Gaits' own jingle, penned by Michael Lynch (inspired by the Smoke's "My Friend Jack").
CHASTE INTO A BAR: On January 3, 2007, at the Lolita Bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, I debated author Virginia Vitzthum on the question, "Is Chastity a Good Idea for Singles?" The entire debate, which was covered by the Observer (U.K.), is available on YouTube.
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INKY-FINGERED DAWN: My writings have appeared in the Wall Street
Journal (one of my
book reviews is available on OpinionJournal; another has been
reprinted elsewhere), National Review Online, and the Sunday Times of London, and many other publications. Most recently, I have contributed to InsideCatholic, which published "Eve of Deconstruction: Feminism and John Paul II.
On The Dawn Patrol, I frequently examine what Planned Parenthood teaches children and teens. In April 2005, Touchstone published my investigative report, "The
Young and the Hot-Wired." On a related note is my op-
ed
about Eve Ensler's "V-Day" for National Review
Online.
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY: Roger Smith's gloriously exhaustive Nilsson Web site includes my Nilsson interview and career overview that originally appeared in Goldmine. Sadly, the interview was Nilsson's last, as he died eight days later. The article includes a great deal of information that didn't make it into my liner notes to the definitive Nilsson retrospective Personal Best (RCA/BMG).
This page
was last updated May 5, 2008. Conversely, The Dawn
Patrol is updated with alarming frequency. E-mail: dawneden -at- gmail.com 
MY MOJO WORKING: In my past life, I was a popular-music historian,
writing for Mojo, Salon,
New York Press, Billboard, and others. (That's a teenage me with Brian
Wilson in 1988.) I've co-authored The Encyclopedia of
Singles and contributed to
other books, including Mojo magazine's The Beatles: 10 Years That
Shook the World and Kill
Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics;
penned liner notes for 80 CD reissues (here's
a partial listing of them); and released one recording of my own, a cover of
Kirsty MacColl's
"They Don't Know" on the Stiff-label tribute album, The Stiff
Generation
(on which I was backed by the fab Anderson
Council).
