Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary, recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review and The Best American Essays 2012. He is a visiting faculty member at Bennington College and is also on the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Free & open to the public. Part of the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Speak Series. Benjamin Anastas is the author of the novels An Underachiever’s Diary, recently re-released in paperback by the Dial Press, and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance (FSG), which was a New York Times notable book. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Yale Review and The Best American Essays 2012. He is a visiting faculty member at Bennington College and is also on the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Free & open to the public. Part of the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Speak Series.