Jason Boog is the west coast cor­re­spon­dent for Pub­lish­ers Week­ly and the author of The Deep End: The Lit­er­ary Scene in the Great Depres­sion and Today. His writ­ing has been fea­tured on NPR and in the Los Ange­les Review of Books, The Believ­er, and Salon. A grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, Boog lives in Cal­i­for­nia with his wife and daugh­ter. Vis­it him at Jason​Boog​.com.