Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary (Dial Press) and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG). His memoir Too Good to Be True (Little A) was a national bestseller. His essays, reviews, short fiction, and other work have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Bookforum, and The Best American Essays anthology. He teaches literature at Bennington College and is on the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program.