Tommy Wallach is a Brooklyn-based musician and novelist. He is the author of "Thanks for the Trouble "and "We All Looked Up", which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was optioned for film by Paramount. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in "McSweeney s", "Tin House", "Wired", "Salon", and other magazines. As a musician, he has put out an EP with Decca Records, as well as two independent releases, including "We All Looked Up: The Album", a companion record to his first novel. He is a recent MacDowell Fellow. Grok more at TommyWallach.com.