Larry Doyle Larry Doyle is an earthling. His first novel, “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” won the 2008 Thurber Award for Humor Writing. His new novel, “Go, Mutants!” has just been released and is supported by an altogether too extravagant website. Doyle was a writer and producer of “The Simpsons” for four years, writes not great movies and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker. More, mostly reliable information is available at larrydoyle.com.
Jessica Francis Kane is the author of a collection of stories, Bending Heaven. Her work has appeared in McSweeny's, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Missouri Review, and the online magazine The Morning News, where she is a contributing writer. Her novel, The Report,
published by Graywolf, has been shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan
First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and is a Barnes &
Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
She lives in New York with her husband and their son and daughter.
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