Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary, recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book. His memoir Too Good to Be True (Little A) was a national bestseller. Other work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review, The New Yorker magazine and The Best American Essays. He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College.