About the Author

John Hodgman lives in New York City, where he curates and hosts The Little Gray Book Lectures, a monthly colloquium of readings, songs, and dubious scholarship. He is a contributing writer at "The New York Times Magazine" and a frequent voice on public radio s "This American Life." Further fiction, nonfiction, and genres in between have appeared in "The Paris Review," "McSweeney s," "One-Story," and "The Believer." He has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, as well as on the great stages of Chicago, Philadelphia, and London s Barbican."