Brian PlatzerBrian Platzer has an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a BA from Columbia University. His writing has appeared often in the New Yorker's "Shouts & Murmurs" and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as in the NewYork Times, the New Republic, and Salon, among other publications. He lives with his wife and two young sons in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and teaches middle school English in Manhattan. He is also the author of Bed-Stuy Is Burning. Read More Read Less