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name: John Glassie
about: I'm the author of a book about a colorful but largely forgotten seventeenth-century scholar and priest named Athanasius Kircher. It's called A Man of Misconceptions. It was first published by Riverhead Books in November of 2012, and came out in paperback in late 2013.I've been a contributing editor for The New York Times Magazine and have written for many publications including The Believer, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Salon, and Wired. I'm also the author of a photo book, Bicycles Locked to Poles, which was published by McSweeney's in 2005. I teach at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and have spoken to students or participated on panels at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Columbia University, The New School, I'm the author of a book about a colorful but largely forgotten seventeenth-century scholar and priest named Athanasius Kircher. It's called A Man of Misconceptions. It was first published by Riverhead Books in November of 2012, and came out in paperback in late 2013.I've been a contributing editor for The New York Times Magazine and have written for many publications including The Believer, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Salon, and Wired. I'm also the author of a photo book, Bicycles Locked to Poles, which was published by McSweeney's in 2005. I teach at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and have spoken to students or participated on panels at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Columbia University, The New School, The CUNY Graduate Center, and The University of Iowa. I grew up near Washington, D.C., attended The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and now live in Brooklyn. ...more