About David Archer

David Archer is a publicist at Vintage Books & Anchor Books. He is a frequent contributor to the variety show "Meet the Lady" and has written for such outlets as xoJane and the BOMBlog.

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April 14, 2012

Witness Protection for the Emotionally Disenfranchised: Heidi Julavits’ The Vanishers

My plan was to sit down with one glass of Grüner Veltliner and merely start reading The Vanishers, Heidi Julavits' latest novel. What happened, of course, was that "one" became "a few." I was transfixed from page one and needed do what it took to stay where I was, as the five-minute walk home would have been five minutes I wasn't reading further -- an unacceptable prospect.