David Knowles has covered politics at AOL for the past two and a half years. He has published two novels, The Third Eye (Nan Talese/Doubleday) and The Secrets of the Camera Obscura (Chronicle Books), and his short stories have appeared in such publications as Nerve and The Baffler. His Op-Ed pieces have appeared in New York Newsday and USA Today, and he has written features for the Wall Street Journal Magazine, Men's Vogue, Travel Leisure, GQ (Spain), and Vanity Fair (Italy). David is also a musician who writes compositions for films. This past year he also started Paradigms Lost, a blog that tracks cultural, scientific and political shifts. He can be followed at Twitter.