Paul La Farge is the author of The Artist of the Missing; Haussmann, or the Distinction; The Night Ocean and Luminous Airplanes, “one of the best works of fiction to come my way in a long time. A quiet triumph of a book,” wrote Gary Shteyngart. La Farge is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.