Tim Kinsella: has fronted such bands as Cap'n Jazz, Owls, Friend/Enemy and Joan of Arc. He holds an MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute Chicago. His writing has appeared in The Chicago Reader, Monsters & Dust, and Stop Smiling Magazine. He lives in Chicago. This is his first novel.

"Tim Kinsella has succeeded where others have failed: in disarming the full fury of his detractors with nothing more than a smirk, his neo-absurdist temperament and the obvious fun with which he goes about his business." -- Pitchfork "[The band] was a purposeful mess, onstage and off. Tim Kinsella's scraped singing is still a rush, even though his naive delivery has given way to wryness." -- The New York Times