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Ken Kalfus has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and he has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is the author of four novels, including 2 A.M. in Little America and Equilateral, and has published three short story collections. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books and his books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. Born in New York, Kalfus currently resides in Philadelphia.
"Praise for Ken Kalfus “Ken Kalfus is an important writer in every sense of ‘important.’ There are hip, funny writers, and there are smart, technically innovative writers, and there are wise, moving, and profound writers. Kalfus is all these at once.”—David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest “Kalfus himself is more shaman than politician—even when his stories rub up against geopolitical borders, he takes to the spiritual and dissolves them into magic.”—Newsday “Kalfus reminds us that the short story is not an easily contained form, a single thing done in a single way [. . .] [He] lights his stories with this fundamental strangeness. . . . No one is comfortable in Kalfus’s universe, and no one is ever exactly at home.”—New York Times “Kalfus unerringly recognizes the comedy inherent in our quandaries of knowing and being, and suggests that laughter best quenches existential thirst.”—Philadelphia Inquirer Praise for 2 A.M. in Little America “Deeply intriguing [. . .] A tense and often beautiful work of reflection on the American present [. . .] 2 A.M. in Little America is a highly readable, taut novel. It pulls the reader into its world, and suggests that many interesting human complications await us at the end of the story called the United States of America.”—New York Times Book Review “Kalfus has a gift for penetrating to the core of current events and presenting issues in a provocative way . . . [2 A.M. in Little America is] a quietly dystopian novel that presents an unsettling portrait of a humbled America as seen through the eyes of a migrant who is a not entirely reliable narrator.”—Washington Post “Kalfus is one of contemporary literature’s best-kept secrets. He’s a writer’s writer through and through, but with 2 A.M. in Little America, he’s poised to make a major crossover to the mainstream . . . Kalfus explores powerful questions about tribalization, alienation, and exile.”—Esquire ""A dystopian novel with a timely premise [. . .] To put down the book, to re-immerse in the onrushing news stream of our raucous times, is sometimes to feel the world of 2 A.M. in Little America encroaching on real life. A coup attempt, a jaw-slackening probe of the event with intimations another could be on the way, mass shootings—what fresh horror will pop up on our screens? Is it time to get out?""—Washington Post Magazine “From the undersung Kalfus, another tonally intricate triumph, this one about the bewilderment, alienation, and sheer strangeness of being a refugee [. . .] A strange, highly compelling tale about what happens when American privilege and insulation get turned inside out.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review"
