Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S.! and Bear v. Shark. He grew up in Virginia and now teaches in the writing program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Chris Bachelder is the author of Bear v. Shark (Scribner, 2001), U. S.! (Bloomsbury USA, 2006),Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (McSweeney’s e-book, 2004), and recently, Abbott Awaits(LSU Press, 2011). His stories and essays have appeared in The Believer, The Oxford American,and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, among many others. This interview took place at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in front of an audience of primarily students and faculty.
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