Simon, Ed: - Ed Simon is the editor of Belt Magazine and an emeritus staff writer for The Millions . He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and has taught writing at several institutions of higher education, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University. Simon's work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Times, among others. He is the author of several books, and his most recent titles include Relic, Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology from Abrams; and Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost from Ig Publishing. In the summer of 2024, Melville House will release Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain . He has written about his hometown before in An Alternative History of Pittsburgh.