Josh Max writes, edits and shoots photos in various combinations for a variety of major media including or which have included the New York Times, Newsweek, and the NY Daily News, where he edited and wrote "Your Drive" from 2006-2008.
He is currently contributing auto correspondent at AOL Autos and Guitar Aficionado magazine and thrice-weekly updates a blog, AutoGigolo.
Josh Max is also a musician, singer, songwriter, producer and arranger of live concerts and studio projects. Max is represented for pre-cleared licensing of his original songs with MPL Communications, the publishing company owned by Sir Paul McCartney. MPLCommunications.com
Max's website for his music is www.TheMaxes.com
Max is also an ordained Interfaith minister and director of United We Heal, a non-profit floating group of musicians and performers who give of their time and talent to worthy causes and bring fun, hope, joy and mischief to people's lives via the power of shake 'n' shout. Max is available to marry people whom the church will not for whatever reason.
Josh Max is an expert on and available to write or speak on the following subjects:
*Sexuality and relationships
Max is a veteran of numerous traditional and radical groups, seminars and courses on sex and relationships taken in the USA, India and Europe and offers a unique take on physical, spiritual, emotional and/or mental monogamy, and relating.
*American culture, 1900-1970
Max has comprehensively studied and continues to study, via books and film, 20th-century American politics, literature, culture, war, and popular music/film/theatre from the years 1900-1970.
*Veganism
Max has been a vegan since February 1, 2008. While keeping personally out of what people choose to eat and not eat, he has a unique take on the lifestyle, on his life before and after meat, on Vegan culture and politics, cooking Vegan food and having fun in London, Paris, New York and other places where, occasionally, Vegan fare can be difficult to find.
Max has also, at different times, fasted on water for as long as 7 days to discover the effect it would have on him physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
*Fat and body weight
Max is an "out" lover of big, beautiful women and can and will wax at length about the aesthetic and sexual beauty of the fat female form and size acceptance. He has written and performed several songs about his attraction to large women, including "I Like A Whole Lot Of Woman," "Heavy Honey," "Magic Muffin Top" and others, and published the (heavily edited) "Big Love" in Salon.com.
*The Marx Brothers
Max's great Uncle David Hoffman had a bit part in the legendary comedic team's "A Night In Casablanca" (1946) and Max is an authority on the team's life, dates of births and deaths, films and who wrote the scripts and who directed them, their Broadway years (1924-1928) and any other tidbit of information anyone would ever want to know about Julius, Leonard, Adolph, Herbert and Milton, otherwise known as Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo, not to mention Frenchie, Minnie, Kayo, Alexander Woollcott, Miss Flatto, and E93rd between 3rd and Lex. Max has read, dozens of times, "Harpo Speaks!" "Groucho and Me," "Memoirs of a Mangy Lover," "Beds," "The Marx Brothers' Scrapbook," "Groucho, Chico, Harpo and sometimes Zeppo," Kyle Crighton's fabricated "The Marx Brothers," and every other tome written about the team. One of Max's first articles was a full-page NY Daily News story called "Mother's Day" about Minnie Marx as part of the paper's "Big Town Biography" series.
His favorite Marx is Harpo.