Charles Baxter is the author of seven novels, including the most recent Blood Test: a Comedy, published by Pantheon in 2024, and six story collections; the most recent There’s Something I Want You to Do was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2016. He has also edited or co-edited several books, and published essays on fiction collected in Burning Down the House (Graywolf), Beyond Plot, and Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Fiction (2022). He now lives in Minneapolis and was the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and Harper’s, among other journals and magazines. His fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories seven times, eleven times in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and translated into many languages.
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