THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for July 2003

  • Michael Atkinson writes about film for The Village Voice. He is the author of Ghosts in the Machine: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Editions, 2000).
  • 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 drives a convertible but believes in sunscreen.
  • 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.
  • Paul Collins edits the Collins Library for McSweeney’s Books, and is the author of Sixpence House and Banvard’s Folly.
  • David Ewing Duncan’s last book was Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Quest to Determine a True and Accurate Year. He is at work on two books for Harper-Collins: Live Fire: The Masterminds of Biotech Build a New Man, and Copernicus’ Monster: A Brief History of Why We Don’t Believe Anything Anymore.
  • Amanda Gersh is a fiction writer. She lives in Brooklyn.
  • Daniel Handler has just finished two new books: Adverbs, and, as Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope.
  • Mark Holcomb writes about books and movies for The Village Voice. His work has also appeared in Film Quarterly, SOMA, and Salon. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
  • Heidi Julavits edits The Believer.
  • James Kass is a poet/writer/educator living in San Francisco. He’s also the founder and director of Youth Speaks.
  • Ben Marcus is the author of The Father Costume, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String.
  • Tamler Sommers is a graduate student in Philosophy at Duke University.
  • Mark Swartz is the author of Instant Karma, an ABD with an exploding dissertation.
  • Wells Tower’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Oxford American, Fence, and elsewhere. He lives in New Orleans.

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