"I feel that one of my missions in life is to chip away at the idea of human exceptionalism, the idea that humans have transcended or risen above an animal nature and are in some way superior to other species."
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James Romm is James H. Ottaway Jr., Professor of Classics at Bard College. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Edges of
Patrick deWitt was born in 1975. His debut novel Ablutions (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was published in 2009. His second novel, The Sisters Brothers, will be published by Ecco in 2011. He lives
Kurt Rheinheimer’s stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Redbook and Playgirl to Shenandoah and Glimmer Train, and have been anthologized in four volumes of New Stories From The South: The Year’s
James Steed is working on writing experiment, a novel that he’s “building” in the form of a website, with links to related material like historical websites and YouTube videos. He says of it, “My
Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. His work celebrates this horror. He has been published by Exquisite Corpse, Pindeldyboz, Cherry Bleeds, The 2nd Hand, Semantikon, and countless other places. His novel,