Ted Heller is a journalist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, and the son of Catch-22 author Joseph Heller. He’s written for Vanity Fair, Details, Premiere, Spy, among others, and worked at Nickelodeon magazine. His first novel, Slab Rat, was called “diabolically witty” by GQ, and named one of the 10 Best Novels of 2001 by The Washington Post. The Guardian called his follow-up, Funnymen, “a masterpiece of comic invention.” Pocket Kings was an Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review.