CRAVING FAITH
A novelist confronts the near-conversion craving that some voters seek in political candidates and ideas and deals with it the only way he can—as fiction.
The author of The Radicals, Ryan McIlvain was born in Utah and raised in Massachusetts. His first novel, Elders, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Post Road, The Rumpus, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among many other publications. A former Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, McIlvain now lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.