Josh Weil is the author of the novels What Came West and The Great Glass Sea, the novella collection The New Valley, and the story collection The Age of Perpetual Light. A Fulbright fellow, he has been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation, among others. He has taught widely—including in graduate programs at Columbia University, UC Irvine, and the University of Leipzig. joshweil.com [F]