Ed Simon is a staff-writer for The Millions and an editor at Berfrois. His writing has appeared at The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among several others. His collections America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion and Furnace of This World; or, 36 Observations about Goodness are both available from Zero Books.

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