Peter Trachtenberg is the author of Another Insane Devotion, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh and The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning, winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. His honors include the Whiting Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. He teaches in the creative writing program of the University of Pittsburgh and in the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. www.petertrachtenberg.com
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“It Would Have Been an Act of Love to Shoot His Friend”: An Interview with William Lychack
Peter Trachtenberg talks to William Lychack about boys, men, the gun in the first act, and his novel “Cargill Falls.”...
Winners: Ayn Rand’s Teenage Daydream
On Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s theatrical adaptation of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.”...
A Train, an Old Guy with a Banjo, a Chained Dog: On Jeff Silva and Vic Rawlings’s “Linefork”
Peter Trachtenberg reflects on the work of music and the music of work in “Linefork.”...
Then Again I: On If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table
“I come first, second, and third. Then nothing, then again I; and then all the others.”...
I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me And We Are All Together
Peter Trachtenberg goes in search of the real Hilton Als....
