John Haskell’s books include I Am Not Jackson Pollock (Picador),  American Purgatorio, Out of My Skin (Both Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and The Complete Ballet (Graywolf Press). He has written plays, catalogue essays, dance reviews, food histories, and film criticism. Fiction and nonfiction pieces have appeared in variety of publications, including BOMB and A Public Space, magazines where he is a contributing editor.