Julian Tepper’s fourth nov­el, Cool­er Heads, was pub­lished this past Jan­u­ary. His writ­ing has appeared in The Paris Review, Play­boy, The Brook­lyn Rail, Zyzzy­va, The Dai­ly Beast, Tablet Mag­a­zine, The New York Review of Archi­tec­ture, and else­where. His essay ​“Lock­ing Down with the Fam­i­ly You’ve Just Evis­cer­at­ed in a Nov­el” was a Notable Essay of 2022 in The Best Amer­i­can Essays 2022. He was born and raised in New York City, and lives there still with his wife and two sons.