where the writers are

Peter Trachtenberg Nonfiction writer, journalist

Peter Trachtenberg

Biography

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of the memoir 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities, a hybrid of journalism, moral philosophy, and personal essay on the theme of suffering and its narratives. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Bomb, The New York Times Travel Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Bidoun, and his commentaries have been broadcast on NPR's "All Things Considered." He lives in New York State's Hudson Valley. As of August 2008, he is teaching in the Creative Writing Program of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Upcoming Works

  • The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown, August 2008)

Favorite Authors

  • Vladimir Nabokov
    Anton Chekhov
    Charles Dickens
    James Joyce
    Thomas Pynchon
    Mary Gaitskill
    Samuel Beckett
    Denis Johnson
    Don DeLillo
    Philip K. Dick

Causes I Support

  • Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, Move On, Oxfam

University Affiliation

  • (As of August 2008) Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Agents

  • Kathleen Anderson,
    Anderson Literary Management

Contact Agents

Publishers

  • Crown
    Little, Brown & Co.

Contact Publishers

  • Publicity Department, Little, Brown & Co., 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Web Links