Michael O’Connell is a writer, editor, and teacher who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich. He is the author of Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction, editor of Conversations with George Saunders, and co-editor of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies. After a decade of teaching at the university level, he is currently an editor at Busted Halo and the inaugural fellow at the Jesuit Media Lab, where he writes and teaches courses. You can find more of his work on his substack Nothing Gold.