James Hulbert

James Hulbert has worked as a bartender, food bank coordinator, government worker, Peace Corps Volunteer, research assistant, teacher and video clerk. He studied literature at Princeton, Freiburg, Geneva and Yale. He's translated texts by Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan, as well as Hans Biedermann's 'Dictionary of Symbolism'. His favorite authors include Balzac, Dumas, Henry James, Marguerite Duras, Ruth Rendell and Jo Nesbø. Hulbert is married to the painter Jim Carpenter, for whom he's somehow never posed nude, at least not in a professional capacity. (People always want to know, once they've read 'A Kiss Before You Leave Me', Hulbert's first novel, which begins what is planned as a trilogy.) His other avowed weaknesses include Jascha Heifetz, cinema, running and qigong. His blog is at http://jaschawrites.blogspot.com; on Twitter he's @jaschawrites.