Wachs, Benjamin

Benjamin Wachs is the bar columnist for the San Francisco Weekly. His work has been published in Village Voice Media, on National Public Radio, and in numerous newspapers and magazines.

During college Wachs lived in a Buddhist monastery in India. After dropping out of graduate school, he worked as a freelance nightlife reporter for Playboy.com. Traveling around the world, he wrote about bars for money and spontaneously sang sacred music in some of history's greatest cathedrals.

This is his first collection of fiction.