Nicole Rudick is the Managing Editor of The Paris Review. She has contributed essays to a number of books, including What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (RISD Museum of Art), Ben Jones: Men’s Group: The Video (PictureBox), and Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973–1977 (PictureBox). Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Bookforum, Boston Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Comics Journal, and elsewhere.