Lazar, David

David Lazar is the director of the nonfiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, a professor in the Department of English, and the editor of "Hotel Amerika," He is the author of "The Body of Brooklyn" (Iowa, 2003), "Michael Powell: Interviews," "Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher," and a book of prose poems, "Powder Town," Four of his essays have been named Notable Essays of the Year by "Best American Essays,"