In addition to being the President and Publisher of major publishing house Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi is the author of the acclaimed poetry collections Left-Handed, North Street, and Morning Run, and is also a poetry critic and translator. Galassi is a former Guggenheim Fellow and Paris Review poetry editor, and his debut novel is the story of a decades-long publishing feud.

“Sophisticated, suspenseful, and entertaining” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Ken Kalfus is the author of the story collections Thirst and PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. His novels include The Commissariat of Enlightenment, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country—a National Book Award nominee, and Equilateral. In Coup de Foudre, Kalfus riffs on current events with the story of an international banker accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.