About the Author

Paul La Farge is the author of four novels: The Night Ocean, forthcoming from Penguin Press in March, 2017; The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999) , Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001) , and Luminous Airplanes (FSG, 2011) ; and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's Books, 2005) . He lives in a subterranean 'annex' in upstate New York, where he is almost certainly up to no good.

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