Katie Kitamura is the author of The Longshot (Free Press, 2009), a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. She was creative consultant on the three-part documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, featuring philosopher Slavoj Žižek, as well as the sequel, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. She has written for publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Wired, and is a regular contributor to Frieze and Art Monthly. Gone to the Forest is forthcoming in August 2012 from Free Press.