justin taylor

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Justin Taylor is the author of the novel, The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial, 2011), and the story collection, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial, 2010).  Both books were New York Times Editor's Choice selections.  He is also the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth, 2007), and Come Back, Donald Barthelme, published as a special section of McSweeney's #24.  With Eva Talmadge he is the editor of The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide (Harper Perennial, 2010).  He has written nonfiction and criticism for the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Tin House, the Believer, the Oxford American, NPR.org, the Poetry Foundation, and other journals, magazines and websites.  He has taught graduate and undergraduate writing at a number of universities in and around New York City.  He lives in Brooklyn.