J. A. Bernstein’s stories have appeared in Shenandoah, World Literature Today, Kenyon Review Online, and other journals. He is the fiction editor of Tikkun and an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His website is writingwar.com.
J.A. Bernstein says of Michael Pitre’s Fives and Twenty-Fives: “It would not be an exaggeration to say that this might be the best novel to come out of the current carnage in Iraq.”
“More than anything, I wanted this book to take on the processed food industry. As a satirist, I wanted my novel to serve as a kind of corrective to it, if only by asking readers to question what it is they’re eating. But the food industry doesn’t exist in a vacuum, so it’s what it reveals about American life that is really at the center of the novel.”
