Lary Bloom's books, some of them co-authored, include Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas; The Writer Within; Letters From Nuremberg; The Ignorant Maestro; The Test of Our Times; and Lary Bloom's Connecticut Notebook. His plays include Worth Avenue, Wild Black Yonder, and the musical A Woman of a Certain Age (lyricist). He has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, Trinity College, and in Fairfield University's MFA in Creative Writing program. His columns and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the Hartford Courant, Connecticut Magazine and the New Haven Independent. He can be reached at larybloom@gmail.com.