Mark Rudman is Adjunct Professor at New York University and recently received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His many books include Sundays on the Phone (Wesleyan University Press, 2005) and The Couple (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). His trilogy (Provoked in Venice (Wesleyan University Press, 1999), The Millennium Hotel (Wesleyan University Press, 1996), Rider (Wesleyan University Press, 1994)) has been seen as a twentieth century The Prelude.