Jim Hanas is the author of the short story collection Why They Cried (Joyland/ECW Press). His writing has appeared in Electric Literature, Fence, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, One Story, Paul Ryan (the magazine), and Husserl Studies and has been anthologized in Fifty-Two Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media, and Significant Objects.