Joshua Furst is the author of the novel “The Sabotage Cafe,” new in paperback from Vintage, and a story collection, “Short People” (Knopf).

Writing about “The Sabotage Cafe,” the New York Times Book Review noted that “Furst is an impressively sharp, compassionate and morally scrupulous anatomist of human relationships.” It was a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year, and a Rocky Mountain News Top-10 Debut Novel.

And the Miami Herald praised “Short People” as “a near-magical collection.” The Washington Post called it “sharp, funny and generous-minded.”

Furst is also a playwright and the winner of a James Michener Fellowship and the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren award for short fiction.

He lives in New York City and teaches at the Pratt Institute.

Visit him online at www.sabotagecafe.com.