Peter Coviello is the author of five books, including Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America, Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism, and Long Players, a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Ten Best Books of 2018. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and since 2014 has been Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago.