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Ken Kalfus is the author of three collections of short stories and five novels, including A Hole in the Story, to be published April 1, 2025. His previous novels include A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, a finalist for the National Book Award. He’s also the author of 2 A.M. in Little America, which was published in 2022. His collection, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, was a finalist of the PEN/Faulkner Award. Its title story was adapted for an HBO movie. Kalfus has received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He's written for Harper's, The New York Review of Books, newyorker.com and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages.
