Thomas Beller is the author of a novel, The Sleep-Over Artist, a story collection, Seduction Theory, and a forthcoming collection of essays, How to Be a Man, all from W.W. Norton. He is a contributing editor at The Cambodia Daily, a co-founding editor of Open City, and co-editor of With Love and Squalor, a book of essays about J. D. Salinger. He runs the website Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.