Geoffrey O’Brien’s books include Floating City: Selected Poems 1978 – 1995, The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century, Sonata for Jukebox, The Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading, Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties, Castaways of the Imagined Planet, and Hardboiled America. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Library of America.