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Caleb Crain

Biography

Caleb Crain

Caleb Crain has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, n+1 and The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of the novels NECESSARY ERRORS and OVERTHROW and the critical work AMERICAN SYMPATHY. He was born in Texas, raised in Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Caleb Crain

Books by Caleb Crain

by Caleb Crain - Fiction

One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye. Leif, a poet as well as a skater, invites Matthew to take part in an experiment with tarot cards. It's easier to know what's in other people's minds than most people realize, Leif and his friends claim. Do they believe in telepathy? Can they actually do it? Instead of writing his dissertation, Matthew soon finds himself falling for Leif and entangled with his friends, who are as idealistic as the Occupy encampment they like to visit. When the group runs afoul of a government contractor, an avalanche of news coverage, internet outrage and legal repercussions overwhelms them.

by Caleb Crain - Fiction

It’s October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He’s arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia’s revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility.