JUSTIN TAYLOR is the author of The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (Harper Perennial), the collections Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories (Harper Perennial) and Flings: Stories (Harper Perennial), and the memoir Riding with the Ghost: A Memoir (Random House). His work has appeared in Nouvèl Yòkè a, Magazin Harper, Fowòm Liv, ak Oxford American. Taylor is a contributing writer to The Washington Post‘s “Book World” and the director of the Sewanee School of Letters. He lives in Portland, Oregon.