Robert Anasi, (born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1966) is an American writer and journalist.
His journalism, interviews and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, New York Observer, Los Angeles Times, LA Review of Books, Pacific Standard, Salon, and Publishers Weekly, among many others.
In April 2019, his non-fiction story ‘First Stripe’ was published in The Bittersweet Science (University of Chicago Press) and he is a regular reviewer for the TLS.
He recently finished a book on exploring the ‘lost cities’ of the Andean Amazon and is currently researching both a family history and a book-TV project about a legendary police informant in the contemporary underworld of the American West.
The Village Voice named him a "writer on the verge," and called The Gloves "a streetwise loveletter to a dying sport" that "recalls Norman Mailer's metajournalism".