Authors
Julia Glass
Julia Glass' next work of fiction, "I See You Everywhere," which includes this story, will be published in October 2008 by Pantheon Books.
Her first novel, "Three Junes," won the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction and was also a selection of ABC/ Good Morning America's READ THIS! Book Club.
Her second novel, "The Whole World Over," was praised by the Chicago Tribune as "even finer than her first. . . . Glass offers unobtrusive yet resounding insights into the paradoxes of families, the necessary solace of friendship and the volatility of intimate relationships gay and straight. Her social commentary is at once mischievous and trenchant."
Her fiction has been honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, three Nelson Algren Fiction Awards, the Tobias Wolff Award, and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella. She spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
A longtime New Yorker, she now lives in Massachussetts with her family.
Jincy Willett
Jincy Willett is the author of the new novel "The Writing Class" (St. Martin's), as well as the novel "Winner of the National Book Award" and the story collection "Jenny & the Jaws of Life."
The New York Times called "The Writing Class" a "first-rate satire." Reviewing "Winner of the National Book Award," Entertainment Weekly noted that she "mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny." And David Sedaris calls "Jenny" "just the funniest collection of stories I've ever read -- really funny and perfectly sad at the same time."
Her stories have been anthologized in the "Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction," "A Good Deal: Selected Stories from the Massachusetts Review" and the David Sedaris-edited "Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules."
Visit her online at www.jincywillett.com.
Ross Raisin
Ross Raisin is the author of the new novel "Out Backward" (Harper Perennial).
Joshua Ferris called the debut "utterly frightening and electrifying at once," and Stewart O'Nan described it as "equally twisted and brilliant -- a lovely, upsetting book."
He received his MFA from Goldsmiths College in London, where he resides.
Joshua Furst
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.
Porter Shreve
Porter Shreve is the author of the new novel "When the White House Was Ours" (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin).
Jim Lehrer calls it "a tale of sheer delight, beautifully told in perfect pitch," and Publishers Weekly writes, "Shreve's third novel skillfully interweaves the story of teenager Daniel Truitt with that of the United States at a crossroads ... The political backdrop is perfectly played, as is the bittersweet nostalgia that makes the book and its freewheeling gang irresistible."
Shreve's other books include the 2005 novel "Drives Like a Dream," a Chicago Tribune Book of the Year, and the 2000 novel "The Obituary Writer," a New York Times Notable Book.
Visit him online at www.portershreve.com.
