THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for April 2005

  • Lou Anders is the editorial director of the science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as the editor of a number of critically acclaimed anthologies, including Live Without a Net and Projections: Science Fiction in Literature & Film.
  • Leah Beeferman is an artist and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is collaborating on a self-published book entitled Flying Machine, and staffing and designing Chaise DVD magazine.
  • Ray Bradbury is the acclaimed author of more than thirty books, including Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. A new essay collection, Bradbury Speaks, will be published by HarperCollins in August 2005.
  • Stephen Burt is a Reform Democrat. He teaches at Macalester College in Saint Paul. (His books are Popular Music, a collection of poems, and Randall Jarrell and His Age.)
  • Josh Fischel’s work has appeared in Bean Soup and on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is originally from New Hampshire.
  • William Giraldi’s essay “Let There Be Darkness: In Defense of Depressing Literature” appeared in the October 2004 issue of the Believer.
  • Peter Grosz is an actor and writer in Chicago. He’s currently a cast member at the Second City E.T.C., and has performed everything from standup comedy to a reworked version of Fiddler on the Roof with eighties songs.
  • Jenn Habel’s poems have appeared in publications such as Gulf Coast, Southern Poetry Review, and Puerto del Sol. This spring, the Colorado College Press will publish her chapbook Good Night Bynum.
  • Nick Hornby is the author of five books, most recently The Polysyllabic Spree. He lives in North London.
  • Dan Johnson grew up in the California desert and went to school in L.A. and New York. Now he’s in New Haven, where he’s still revising his first little novel and working at the record shop. Stop in and say hi.
  • Chuck Klosterman is a writer for SPIN, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; and the forthcoming Killing Yourself to Live: 85 Percent of a True Story.
  • Miles Marshall Lewis is the author of Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises, a collection of essays. He is working on a book about Sly & the Family Stone, There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Continuum Books, 2006).
  • Sarah Manguso is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002) and the forthcoming Siste Viator (2006). She teaches in the MFA program at the New School and lives in Brooklyn.
  • Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. English-language translations of his novels include All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, and the short story collection When I Was Mortal.
  • Brian McMullen has an incredible grandmother.
  • Rick Moody’s forthcoming novel is entitled The Diviners.
  • David Orr, a writer and lawyer in New York, was recently awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
  • Darren Reidy works for the Village Voice and lives in Brooklyn.
  • Kevin Sampsell is the editor of The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night (Manic D Press), the author of Beautiful Blemish (Word Riot Press), and a bookstore employee living in Portland, Oregon.
  • Suzanne Snider is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. She is currently at work on a nonfiction book about a communal society in Michigan.
  • J. M. Tyree has published essays on American literature in New England Review, and appeared in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of the McSweeney’s Humor Category.
  • Milton L. Welch is completing a dissertation on modernist poetry at the University of Virginia and holds a fellowship at Hampshire College. His reviews of poetry have appeared in several publications.

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