VIKEN BERBERIAN is a novelist and short story writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Review of Books, The Believer, Bomb, and The Financial Times. He is the author of the novels The Cyclist (Simon & Schuster, Diable Vauvert, Houtkiet, Modan, Minimum Fax), and Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets (Simon & Schuster, Editions Gallmeister). He lives in France.