Peter LaSalle is the author of two novels, five story collections, and a previous collection of essays on literary travel, The City at Three P.M. His writing on travel and literature has appeared in publications such as the Nation, the Progressive, Africa Today, the New England Review, the Southern Review, and Best American Travel Writing 2014 (selected by Paul Theroux). When not traveling, he divides his time between Austin, where he is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Texas, and Narragansett in his native Rhode Island.
