D. Graham Burnett serves on the board of trustees of the Milcom Memorial Reading Room and Attention Library; he holds a faculty appointment at Princeton University and edits ""Conjectures"" for the Public Domain Review. Catherine L. Hansen teaches at the University of Tokyo, and is a contributor to The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. From 2019 to 2020, Smith was John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library.
"""[A] poetic history of sorts. Our reading becomes an exercise in 'practical aesthesis,' and In Search of the Third Bird a riveting aesthetic object in its own right."" —Josefina Massot, Los Angeles Review of Books ""Landing somewhere between Pale Fire and the formal irony of Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern."" —Nathan Heller, The New Yorker"