CLASS OF 2003 | 2026 | FALL ISSUE

Zoë (Hall) Levy recently wrapped a bicoastal tour of The Braid’s new theater production, L’Chaim America! She was beyond thrilled to see classmates Michael Lewis, Shana Simmons, Joe Sousa, Jeremy Cluchey, and past alums at her shows throughout Los Angeles, Orange County, the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston. 

Tejas Desai finished rolling out his ambitious, multipart, pandemic novel with short stories, Bad Americans, with Bad Americans: Part II published on April 15, 2026. He held an author talk at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn and also spoke at the University of Oxford in the UK, where he studied abroad his junior year and first got the idea for Bad Americans. As of early August 2026, Part I has won 20 literary honors and Part II has won seven literary honors, with the books acclaimed as “a timeless masterpiece,” “a landmark literary event,” and “a genre defying tour de force.” His next two projects are a travel memoir on his international backpacking adventures for the last 25 years and a major book series on his literary movement, The New Wei. In his role as a supervising librarian, he presented “Serving Migrants at Ground Zero” at the PLA Conference in Minneapolis, where Anna Seastrand showed him around, and presented twice at the ALA Conference in Chicago. He randomly met fellow Wes alum Luke Goldstein ’20 at a reading in Brooklyn and spent the 250 July 4th celebration with Bayard Templeton, Ted Quinn, and Laurie Shaner Quinn.

AMY TANNENBAUM GOTTLIEB | atannenbaum@wesleyan.edu