Brian Platzer has an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA from Columbia University. His writing has appeared often in The New Yorker’s “Shouts and Murmurs” and McSweeney’s “Internet Tendency,” as well as in The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novels "Bed-Stuy Is Burning" and now "The Body Politic." The new novel explores the meaning of commitment, the nature of forgiveness, the way that buried secrets will always find their way to