School on a Garbage Pile

George Packer is an American novelist and playwright, and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. His work has been published in Boston Review, AGNI, The Nation, Harper’s, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His most recent book is Betrayed: A Play (Faber & Faber, 2008). (updated 7/2010)

Packer’s novel Central Square was reviewed in AGNI 49 by Nell Beram.