Matt Weiland is a Vice President and Senior Editor at W. W. Norton & Company. Authors he has worked with include André Aciman, Andrea Barrett, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, John Lanchester, Robert Macfarlane, Mary Norris, Joe Sacco, Shankar Vedantam, and Adelle Waldman. He previously worked at Ecco, Granta, the Paris Review, the Baffler, and NPR’s documentary radio unit, American RadioWorks. Weiland is the co-editor of three anthologies: State by State and The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup (with Sean Wilsey), and Commodify Your Dissent (with Thomas Frank). He has contributed the introductions to the NYRB Classics reissues of Names on the Land by George R. Stewart and to Akenfield by Ronald Blythe. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, Bookforum, Slate, and elsewhere.