One of Spain’s most revered novelists, Javier Marías has received numerous literary honors, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina étranger. His 14 novels include A Heart So White, While the Women Are Sleeping, and The Infatuations. Marías is also the author of three story collections and 20 collections of articles and essays, and he has translated some of the English language’s greatest writers’ work into Spanish. His own work has been translated into more than 40 languages and has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide. Thus Bad Begins, “a demonstration of what fiction at its best can achieve” (Guardian), explores desire, power, and the lies couples tell each other.

In conversation with Wyatt Mason a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. He is a writer in residence at Bard College.