I wrote the critical book "Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction" (Harvard University Press, 2016); the novel "Pop Apocalypse" (HarperPerennial, 2009); and co-edited (with Sam Cohen) the collection "The Legacy of David Foster Wallace" (University of Iowa Press, 2012). I contributed a short story to "Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future" (HarperCollins, 2014), ed. Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer, and am at work on a variety of scholarly and creative projects.I work as an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an associate editor at the "Los Angeles Review of Books."I was born in New York City, spent a decade or so in the Bay Area, and currently live in Washington, DC.