Over the past 20 years, Courtney Eldridge has published two novels, The Generosity of Women and Ghost Signs, and Unkempt, a short story collection. Record à battre, the translation of her first novella, “The Former World Record Holder Settles Down,” received France’s Prix du Marais in 2006 and was profiled in Vogue Paris. Eldridge’s work also appears in BOMB: The Author Interviews and The Better of McSweeney’s, Volume 1.