Eric Farwell is an adjunct professor of English at Monmouth University and Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. His writing has appeared in print or online for The Writer's Chronicle, Esquire, Salon, Spillway, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, VICE (forthcoming), and The Los Angeles Review of Books (forthcoming).