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Thomas Beller is the author of Seduction Theory, The Sleep-Over Artist, and How to Be a Man. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker’s Culture Desk, has edited numerous anthologies (including two drawn from his website, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood), and was a cofounder of the literary journal Open City. Beller is a first generation American whose mother was born in Berlin and grew up in a Kibbutz in Israel. She is now a documentary film maker who has been nominated for an Academy Award for her film The Restless Conscience, as well as being the recipient of numerous other prizes and awards from film festivals around the world. Beller’s father grew up in the Prater neighborhood in Vienna, beneath the famous carousel, and was the last member of his family to leave the city, at the age of sixteen, in 1938.