THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for April 2004

  • Joshuah Bearman is a writer and, along with this girlfriend, a jewelry proprieter. He lives in Hollywood, where he is a contributor to the LA Weekly and other publications.
  • Tom Bissell is a regular Believer contributor. He is the author of Chasing the Sea, and the co-author (with Jeff Alexander) of Speak, Commentary. He strongly advises those interested in reading The Gulag Archipelago to stick with the harder-to-find three-volume edition of the book rather than HarperCollins’s condensed one-volume edition. Please trust him on this.
  • Stephan Collishaw lives in Nottingham and is a teacher. He won an art bursary for The Last Girl which Newsweek International called “a spectacular novel.” His new novel, Amber, will be published in July 2004.
  • Nathaniel C. Comfort is in the history of medicine department at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Tangled Field, a biographical study of the geneticist Barbara McClintock. His essays have appeared in Natural History, New Scientist, Science, and the New York Times Book Review. He is not a herpetologist, but his son, Charles, does have a pet frog named “Speckled.”
  • Elizabeth Crane is the winner of the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award and teaches in the School of Continuing Studies at Northwestern University. Her debut story collection, When the Messenger Is Hot, was published by Little, Brown in January 2003. Her second book, All This Heavenly Glory, is due from Little, Brown in 2005. She lives in Chicago.
  • Roberta Cruger has written for Salon.com, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Avalon Travel Publishing, and was a founding editor of Creem magazine. She lives in Seattle, where she’s completing a collection of essays, Between Rock and Hard Places.
  • Dave Eggers lives in California.
  • Stephen Elliott’s fourth novel, Happy Baby, was released by McSweeney’s and MacAdam/Cage in February. He is currently working on a book about the 2004 Democratic nomination for Picador called Looking Forward To It, due out this October.
  • Neil Freeman has studied mathematics and art. He is the webmaster of www.fakeisthenewreal.org.
  • Nick Hornby is the author of five books, most recently Songbook. He lives in north London.
  • Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta. Her second novel, The Untelling, will be published next year.
  • Ben Marcus is the author of The Father Costume, Notable American Women, and The Age of Wire and String.
  • Nick Poppy is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. His documentary, Containment: Life After Three Mile Island (made with Chris Boebel), might be playing at a college or film festival near you. He asks that you visit the website www.containment.net for more information.
  • Milana Vuković Runjić writes a sex column for the Croatian newsweekly Globus. This month’s column, like last month’s, was written specifically for the Believer.
  • J. David Santen is a freelance writer living in Portland, Oregon.

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