I’m currently writing a biography of sociologist C. Wright Mills for Simon and Schuster and editing a collection of literary critic Dwight Macdonald’s essays for the University of Chicago Press.

I’ve edited four other books and written essays on a wide variety of topics in history and contemporary culture. Every Fury on Earth collected some of my writings.

I received my Ph.D. in American history from the University of Rochester. For a decade or so, I taught at Harvard University, Boston College, and Columbia University. After leaving academia, I edited The Baffler magazine for five years.