John Glassie

John Glassie is the author of A Man of Misconceptions, a non-fiction book about a great and strange 17th-century genius/crackpot named Athanasius Kircher. An editor for The New York Times Magazine, John has written for The Believer, The New Republic, The Paris Review Daily, Salon, and Wired, as well as The New York Times. In addition to many articles about books, the arts, and ideas, he has interviewed dozens of public figures, from Gene Simmons to Anita Hill to Jhumpa Lahiri.

Glassie's photographs of bikes on the streets of New York became the basis of a 2005 book, Bicycles Locked to Poles, published by McSweeney's, and the subject of an exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York. At certain odd times he has also exhibited paintings, constructions, and video. John teaches at the Pratt Institute and has given talks or participated on panels at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Columbia University, Loyola University in New Orleans, The New School, The CUNY Graduate Center, and The University of Iowa. He grew up near Washington, D.C., and went to The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He lives in Brooklyn.