Eugene K. Garber is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of English at The University at Albany. His books include O AMAZONAS ESCURO (Swank Books, 2010); VIENNA 00 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006); The Historian: Six Fantasies of the American Experience (Milkweed Editions, 1993), winner of TriQuarterly's 1992 William Goyen Prize for Fiction; and Metaphysical Tales, winner of the 1981 Associated Writing Programs Award for Short fiction. He is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Fulb...