Alena Graedon lives in Brooklyn. She is at work on a novel about Hegel, lexicography and empanadas.

• January 2009: On the Eve of Destruction
  Fallout shelters are are just outmoded relics of a bygone Cold War paranoia. (Right?)
• June 2008: Interview with Kristen Schaal
  Most recognizable as the stalker-fan from HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, Schaal also does killer, Andy Kaufman‒style standup and loves birds.