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Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, received the Crawford Fantasy Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and his short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices and Best American Fantasy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

"Jedediah Berry knows magic. The Manual of Detection combines the intricacy and thoughtfulness of Borges and Kafka with the page-turning excitement of a detective thriller.... It made me laugh, thrill, think, and wonder."—Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief


Crossing borders, assuming identities, infiltrating the unknown with the intentionof uncovering and transmitting secret maneuvers, fraudulent agendas, hiddenlives: the spy and the artist, I think, are kindred souls.


In that spirit, I’m writing a series of stories calledThe Watchers. The stories are all shortand mostly very strange. In one, an agent infiltrates a sleeping man’s bedroom via themin...

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