Wayne Hoff­man is the author of The End of Her: Rac­ing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Mur­der; his nov­els include Hard, An Old­er Man, and Sweet Like Sug­ar. His cul­tur­al report­ing has appeared in the Wall Street Jour­nal, Wash­ing­ton Post, The For­ward, Vil­lage Voice, The Nation, Bill­board, Slate, and dozens of oth­er pub­li­ca­tions; he is cur­rent­ly exec­u­tive edi­tor of Tablet mag­a­zine. He lives in New York City and the Catskills.