Benjamin Anastas

Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary, recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book. His memoir Too Good to Be True was published in October of 2012 by New Harvest/HMH. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review and The Best American Essays 2012. He is currently a visiting faculty member at Bennington College and also teaches at Bennington’s low-residency MFA program.