Benjamin Anastas is the author of An Underachiever s Diary (hailed by Very Short List as the funniest, most underappreciated book of the 1990s ) and The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor s Disappearance, a New York Times Notable Book. His work has appeared in Harper s, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and many other places.
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When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother’s fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found the literary acclaim ... SEE MORE