Tom Burke received an MFA from UMass Amherst, and his writing has appeared in Tin House, Playboy, Hobart, and elsewhere. He Currently lives in Chicago and works for the Humanities Institute at Northwestern University. www.tsburke.com
"The book became the story of Igor, as a metaphor for Russia, in crisis. While Igor is not ... some kind of Putin-era everyman, he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place."