found: The instructions, c2010:t.p. (Adam Levin)
found: Guerinica Magazine website, viewed Oct. 4, 2010:About the author (Adam Levin holds an M.A. in Clinical Social Work from The Univ. of Chicago and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse Univ.; his short stories have appeared in a number of publications, including Tin House, McSweeney's, and New England Review; he lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College and The Art Institute)
found: Wikipedia, May 10, 2013(Adam Levin is an American fiction author. His short fiction has been published in places like Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Tin House. Currently, he resides in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute. His first novel, The Instructions, was published in 2010 by McSweeney's.)