Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several books of fiction, including the new novel Please Step Back, which recounts the life of a funk-rock star in America in the 1960s and ’70s. He lives in Brooklyn.

• July/August 2009: Schema: It Takes Four
• August 2007: Schema: Hit Parade
• March 2004: Schema: A Comprehensive History of the Unreliable Narrator
• October 2003: Schema: 1920: A Historical Map of a Typical Year