Born in the Paris suburb of Asnières in 1937, MARCEL COHEN is the author of many books of short narrative prose in French. Several of his works have been translated into English, including Mirrors and The Emperor Peacock Moth. He has also published a collection of interviews with Edmond Jabès, From the Desert to the Book. In 2002 the Académie Française awarded Cohen the Prix Roland de Jouvenel. He lives in Paris. RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN is a poet and art critic whose books include The Basement of the Café Rilke, Postcards from Alphaville, and Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002. He is a Senior Editor at Art in America, and in 2002, the French government presented him with the award of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in New York City. Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor ALBERTO MANGUEL is the author of numerous works of non-fiction including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980), A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007), Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).