Ed Simon is editor of Belt Magazine and emeritus staff writer at The Millions. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Public Domain Review, The Hedgehog Review, JSTOR Daily, McSweeney's, Jacobin, The New Republic, Religion Dispatches, Killing the Buddha, and The Washington Post, among dozens of others. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology.
Ed Simon is one of my favorite writers. Pick up any of his work and you are sure to be moved, astounded, delighted—and always you will learn something new. Relic is a fascinating sustained look at a subject some would prefer to look away from; it is about who we are, what we venerate, and how each of those considerations tends to shape the other. * Peter Manseau, author of The Apparitionists *