THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for December 2004/January 2005

  • Christopher R. Beha lives in New York, where he is at work on his first novel.
  • Christopher Bollen is a hopeless timewaster. He’s also an accomplished writer, editor, and art critic in New York, who is simultaneously at work on his first novel and enjoying the last of his twenties. He is currently the editor of V magazine and writes regularly for Artforum.
  • Franklin Bruno’s writings appear. So do his recordings. Continuum will publish his monograph on Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces in 2005.
  • “The Genealogy of the Supermarket” is Nina Katchadourian’s third major family tree project. In the previous two, she explored the genealogy of rocks and airplanes. She is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
  • Estep Nagy is the writer and director of the independent feature The Broken Giant, which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
  • John O’Connor is originally from Kalamazoo, MI, and now lives in New York. He is a freelance writer and an aggressive compiler of trivia.
  • Jim Ruland writes for Razorcake Fanzine and is the host of Vermin on the Mount, an irreverent reading series in the heart of L.A.’s Chinatown.
  • Sarah Stone is the author of The True Sources of the Nile and co-author, with Ron Nyren, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. She teaches in the graduate writing program at New College of California.
  • Benjamin Weissman’s books include Headless and Dear Dead Person. He shows with Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna, and teaches at Otis College of Art & Design.
  • Lawrence Weschler is the author of eleven books, most recently Vermeer in Bosnia, a collection of essays which includes major pieces on David Hockney and Ed Kienholz.