Sam Kashner is the author of the novel Sinatraland, the memoir When I Was Cool, My Life at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and three books of poetry (most recently, Don Quixote in America). He’s the co-author, with Nancy Schoenberger, of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, as well as Hollywood Kyrptonite and A Talent for Genius, the Life and Times of Oscar Levant. Kashner is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about film and culture. The couple resides in Virginia and New York, where they also collaborate on screenplays.