John Griswold
JOHN GRISWOLD is a staff writer at the <i>Common Reader</i>, a publication of Washington University. He is the author of <i>A Democracy of Ghosts</i>; <i>Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City</i> and has written extensively (as Oronte Churm) at<i> Inside Higher Ed</i> and <i>McSweeney’ s Internet Tendency</i>. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.