THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for June 2003

  • David Berman is the author of Actual Air. He lives in Nashville.
  • Robert Birnbaum is a journalist and literary enthusiast who is editor-at-large and CFO at Identitytheory.com. He yo-yos between Boston and Exeter, New Hampshire.
  • Tom Bissell is the author of the forthcoming Chasing the Sea, a travel narrative of his journey through Uzbekistan to the Aral Sea. His short story collection, Death Defier and Other Stories from Central Asia, will appear next year. He lives in New York City.
  • Jeff Byles is working on a cultural history of demolition, coming out from Harmony Books next year.
  • Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, most recently Contagion, and a critical study of Robert Coover. He is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions magazine. He begins teaching at Brown University in the fall.
  • Amanda Gersh is a fiction writer. She lives in Brooklyn.
  • John Giuffo is a freelance writer living in Queens.
  • Eli Horowitz lives with friends in Berkeley.
  • Hua Hsu writes about politics and the arts for The Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Wire, and other publications. He is working, slowly but surely, toward a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.
  • Alex Kitnick, an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, lives at the Lincoln Crypt in Middletown, Connecticut. His first published essay appeared in Pataphysics 4.
  • Gideon Lewis-Kraus spent the past few years as a philosophical bibliographer. This is his first published interview.
  • Akil C. Narayan is from Grove City, Ohio. Next year he’s going to Brown to study Applied Math.
  • Jim Shepard has a new novel and a collection of stories coming out with Knopf next year.
  • Sarah Stewart Taylor is a freelance journalist in Vermont. Her first novel, a mystery about an art historian who studies gravestones, will be published in June by St. Martin’s Press.
  • Jyoti Thottam is a journalist living in Brooklyn.
  • Tom Vanderbilt writes for many publications, including The New York Times, Nest, the London Review of Books, Artforum, and The Atlantic Monthly. He is author of Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America, published last year by Princeton Architectural Press.
  • Vendela Vida edits The Believer.
  • Anthony York is a writer living in Seattle.

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