Benjamin Weissman is the author of two books of short fiction, most recently Headless. He is also a visual artist who has recently appeared in half a dozen solo, group and collaborative exhibitions in Los Angeles over the past year, including What Every Showflake Knows in its Heart at the Santa Monica Museum and Men in L.A.: Three Generations of Drawing. His fiction and writing about art, books, skiing, and pornography have appeared in The Believer, McSweeney’s and Artforum, among many others. He teaches in the graduate programs of Otis College of Art and Art Center College of Design.