Joel Whitney

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers (OR Books) and a cofounder of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics, for which he is a recipient of the 2017 PEN/Nora Magid award for magazine editing. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic and The Paris Review. His essays in Dissent and Salon were Notables in Best American Essays 2015 and 2013. More at joelwhitney.net.