THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for August 2004

  • Mark Binelli is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a founding member of the New Politeness. He lives in New York.
  • Ann Cummins is the author of a story collection, Red Ant House. She’s currently writing a novel.
  • Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Ben Ehrenreich lives in Los Angeles. His next article will be about puppies.
  • Manuel Gonzales is a systems analyst for the University of Texas at Austin. He currently lives in Texas.
  • Howard Hampton’s Believer essay “Let Us Now Kill White Elephants” will be included in the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004 in October and his consideration of Nebraska will appear in The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (W. W. Norton) this November.
  • Nick Hornby is the author of five books, most recently Songbook. He lives in north London.
  • Michael Kupperman illustrates for magazines such as the New Yorker and Discount Memory Gain Weight-Loss Shopper. He enjoys exchanging meaningful looks with animals.
  • Gary Lutz is the author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive.
  • Brian McMullen’s past Believer charts celebrate Holden Caulfield’s appearance in book-jacket blurbs, Choose Your Own Adventure book history, and businesses with toll-free phone numbers containing the word “ogre.” He is managing editor and graphic designer of Cabinet magazine in Brooklyn.
  • Annie Murphy Paul’s book, The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves, will be published by the Free Press in September. Readers may contact her at [email protected]
  • Milana Vuković Runjić writes a sex column for the Croatian newsweekly Globus.
  • Jessica Shattuck’s short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and her first novel, The Hazards of Good Breeding, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2003 and Winship/PEN Award finalist. She is currently adapting it for the screen and working on her second novel.
  • Sarah Stone is the author of The True Sources of the Nile, and the coauthor, with Ron Nyren, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers, expected later this year from Longman. She teaches in the graduate writing program at New College of California.
  • Benjamin Strong lives in Brooklyn, and is working, sometimes, on a novel.
  • Steven Villereal is an assistant editor at Cabinet magazine and author of the forthcoming pamphlet Topp Schnapps under $10.
  • Former President Jimmy Carter once used Margaret Wappler’s bathroom in her parents’ Oak Park, Illinois, home. She is also working on a novel.
  • Chad Willenborg is nearly finished writing a novel called Sloop. He currently resides in Fountainville, Pennsylvania, and hopes to open a coffeehouse very soon.
  • Dean Young’s sixth book of poems, Elegy on Toy Piano is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press next spring. He teaches in the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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