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Ben, David, and I will be talking about how and why we didn’t publish our books until we had gray hair.

Ben Fountain lives in Dallas, Texas and won the PEN/Hemingway award for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (2007). He was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2012 and won the National Book Critics Circle award for his debut novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012).

David Searcy is the author of the novels Ordinary Horror and Last Things, and the essay collection Shame and Wonder. The recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he lives in Dallas, Texas.