BOOKS
Penguin Workshop, 2023
The Breakfast Club meets Stranger Things in this thrilling science fiction novel about teens from the past and future who travel to the astral plane to save the ones they love. A story about love, loss, history and what keeps memory alive.
Amazon Kindle Singles, 2015
"When Caroline asked me to be a sperm donor, I was speechless. Me? A baby? Babies were for people with stable lives. Even my relationship with my debit card is toxic. But then I did it. And it changed everything."
A heartfelt, naked, and completely hilarious account of the year Albo spent trying to make a baby with his friends, a lesbian couple. Month by month, clinic by clinic, Albo must confront his fears, revisit his past, and decide what being a “dad” really means — all while trying to get aroused by terrible straight porn.
Amazon Kindle Singles, 2011
"The Junket is ... charming, charismatic, and very funny. Albo is an unapologetic artsy-fartsy type, resolved to make ends meet by writing a lot of shill for high-end products he can't afford. But when the culture of freebies that permeates his chosen field catches up with him, readers win out. Go ahead: laugh at his expense. -Jason Kirk, Amazon.com review
A hilarious, harrowing and totally fictional novella about a struggling freelance writer living in New York City named Mike Albo who lands an enviable gig writing about shopping and fashion for the city’s major newspaper. But an ill-fated promotional junket gets Albo into hot water. Here's a gimlet-eyed account of the back-biting media scene, and a candid portrait of what it takes to survive as a writer in today’s chattering and watchful New York City.
Bloomsbury, 2005. Co-written with Virginia Heffernan.
"A treasure...wickedly funny...Studded with comic gems that beg to be read out loud." -Chicago Tribune
Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend...Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist your toxic friend, you need The Underminer.
Harpercollins, 2000
"Among the best gay books of 2000, Hornito speaks to the geeky and emotionally hungry boy in even the coolest man." -Regina Marler, Amazon.com review
Juxtaposing a trip to his childhood home — where he has retreated to try to make some sense of his hectic existence in New York City — with memories of growing up gay in seventies suburbia, Albo creates "Mike Albo." By turns vulnerable and jaded, flamboyant and obsessive, Hornito is full of subversive humor and outrageous irony.