Kirk Curnutt is the author of two novels, Breathing Out the Ghost and Dixie Noir, as well as a book of short stories, Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, and several nonfiction works on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein. His most recent book is Brian Wilson, about the Beach Boys’ resident genius, not the baseball player. By day he wages a hopeless battle at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama to save the apostrophe from extinction.