david farley is the author of An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town (Penguin/Gotham Books), a travel memoir/narrative history about farley's bizarre, intriguing, and sometimes humorous search for one of Christianity's most curious relics: the foreskin of Jesus.
farley spends his time eating, drinking, traveling and then writing about it. His work appears in the travel sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Tribune, as well as the magazines Conde Nast Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Playboy, GQ, New York magazine, Time Out New York, Scientific American, National Geographic Traveler, WorldHum.com, Slate.com, and TheDailyBeast.com among other publications. He's also a regular contributor to The New York Times' "In Transit" blog.
He's talked about his travels on the Fine Living network as well as the BBC, NPR, and local radio stations all over the country. He's lectured to hundreds at the Smithsonian Institute and the New York Times Travel Show. He gives lectures on writing at bookstores around New York City and he teaches writing at New York University and Gotham Writers' Workshop.
He's also worked as the Nightlife Editor at BlackBook magazine and the New York City Restaurant Editor for Gayot.com.
After stints in San Francisco, Rome, Paris, and Prague, farley now lives with his wife and their dog Abraham Lincoln in New York City. He's the founder of the Restless Legs Reading Series. And he's also an awesome dancer.
