Chas Gillespie

New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Chas Gillespie is a writer and comedian whose work is published in The New Yorker, The Onion, Slackjaw, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, where he is a regular contributor. He holds a BA in English Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.

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