Dwight Garner is a book critic for the New York Times. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and Saveur. HIs most recent book is "The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating and Eating While Reading," in which "thoughts about food and literary criticism are stacked, Alexandra Schwartz wrote in The New Yorker, "like the bright layers of a Venetian cookie."
