Career
He teaches literature at Bennington College and is part of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Journalism and other writings Anastas"s fiction, criticism, essays and journalism have appeared in Story, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The Paris Review, The New Republic online, The New York Observer, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and Bookforum. More recently, Anastas has published articles on the Mayan Calendar 2012 hoax in The New York Times Magazine, the prosperity gospel in Harper"s Magazine and a short piece about his father"s nude portrait on Granta"s website.
Memoir His memoir, Too Good To Be True, was published in 2012.
The title is taken from a sign that the author was made to wear around his neck by a childhood therapist. Anastas published the book with Amazon"s fledgling publishing imprint in New York City and numerous bookstores have refused to stock lieutenant
Giles Harvey, writing in The New Yorker, groups Too Good to Be True in a category he calls the "failure memoir" and cites F. Scott Fitzgerald"s The Crack-Up essays as an influence.
