Reif Larsen’s first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller, is currently translated in twenty-seven languages, and was adapted into a movie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie). His second novel, I Am Radar, was published in 2015. Larsen is currently serving as the International Writer-in-Residence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He knows several long palindromes. @reiflarsen