Eric Farwell is an adjunct professor of English.  His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Spillway, McSweeney’s, Pleiades, The New Yorker, Ploughshares online, PANK, The Kenyon Review Online, Esquire, The Writer’s Chronicle, Prairie Schooner, The Believer Logger, and Salon.  He’s currently developing a proposal for a book-length examination of Nick Cave’s seminal album, Murder Ballads.