THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for October 2003

  • Dean Bakopoulos is at work on his first novel, entitled Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon. The opening chapter appeared in Zoetrope:All-Story in 2001.
  • Maggie Behle is the editor of the literary magazine Confluence. She lives in Oakland, California.
  • David Berman is the author of Actual Air. He lives in Nashville.
  • Much to his own chagrin, Daniel Browne is not the author of The Da Vinci Code. He is a fledgling novelist living in Brooklyn.
  • Arthur C. Clarke is best known for his visionary science fiction, which includes the novel Childhood’s End and the screenplay and novelization of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. He has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, since the mid-1950s
  • Paul Collins edits the Collins Library for McSweeney’s Books, and is the author of Sixpence House and Banvard’s Folly.
  • John D’Agata is the author of Halls of Fame.
  • Shea Dean is a writer and editor who lives in New York City.
  • Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times: Stories (Back Bay Books, 2003). He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Ben Ehrenreich is a writer who lives in Los Angeles. He has recently finished his first novel.
  • Ben Greenman, who is an editor at the New Yorker, is the author of Superbad and the forthcoming Superworse. His fiction and journalism have appeared or will appear in many publications, including The Paris Review, the Mississippi Review, and Miami New Times. He lives in Brooklyn.
  • Nick Hornby is the author of five books, most recently Songbook. He lives in north London, and wishes that Charles Dickens would hurry up and finish Edwin Drood.
  • Mark Kamine writes for the Times Literary Supplement and The New Leader. He works on movies and TV shows in the New York area, currently as assistant production manager on The Sopranos.
  • B. Kite lives in Brooklyn with the Turkish Jerry Lewis and would like to thank David Cairns, Mark McElhatten, and Anna Witt-Kite for help and advice.
  • Joe Loya is an essayist, playwright and associate editor at the Pacific News Service. His memoir, The Parole of Buddha Lobo, will be published by HarperCollins in 2004.
  • Kevin Moffett writes a monthly column about zoos and amusement parks for Funworld Magazine. He lives in Iowa City.
  • Kirsten Jones Neff is a gardening teacher, documentary filmmaker and writer, but mostly she’s a mother who lives with her husband, three kids, two dogs and Pearly the Chicken in Northern California.
  • Kevin Smokler is a book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and a contributor to NPR. He’s the editor of a forthcoming anthology from Basic Books on literature as a 21st-century avocation.
  • Alexis Soloski is a theater critic and perpetual grad student. She lives in New York.
  • Benjamin Strong lives in Brooklyn and works as a baker in a Manhattan restaurant. He is currently not writing a novel tentatively entitled Paper People.
  • Lawrence Weschler, formerly of the New Yorker, is now the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. He is the author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder.

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