Tom LeClair
A Duke PhD in English, Tom LeClair was a National Book Award judge for fiction in 2005. He is the author of two books on contemporary American fiction (In the LoopandThe Art of Excess), five novels (Passing Off,Well-Founded Fear,Passing On,The Liquidators, andPassing Through), and hundreds of essays and reviews in literary quarterlies such as theParis Review,Witness, andTriQuarterly, and in periodicals such as theAtlantic,Bookforum, theNation, theNew Republic, theNew York Times Book Review,...

