THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for May 2005

  • Amy Barrett is a writer and filmmaker. She wears her clogs in New York and Maine.
  • 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.)
  • Meghan Daum is the author of the essay collection My Misspent Youth and the novel The Quality of Life Report. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Vogue, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
  • Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
  • David Ewing Duncan’s next book, due out May 10, is The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with my DNA... and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech (William Morrow/Harper-Collins, May, 2005). Go to www.davidewingduncan.com.
  • Mary Guterson’s novel, We Are All Fine Here, was published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in January, 2005.
  • Nick Hornby is the author of five books, most recently The Polysyllabic Spree. He lives in North London.
  • Dorna Khazeni works as a translator and an interpreter from French and Farsi, as well as a writer and film programmer. She lives in Los Angeles.
  • Paul La Farge is the author of two novels, The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann, or the Distinction. His book The Facts of Winter will be published by McSweeney’s in June. He is currently working on two more novels.
  • 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.
  • Morgan Meis is co-editor of Old Town Review and a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York City.
  • Annalee Newitz is a writer in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her forthcoming book, Pretend We’re Dead, is about monster movies and capitalism. She is also a policy wonk at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Learn more about her at www.techsploitation.com.
  • Julie Orringer is the author of How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories. She is currently at work on a novel set in Budapest and Paris in the late 1930’s.
  • Amy Sedaris is an acclaimed career waitress who occasionally writes and performs when her schedule permits. Her new movie, Strangers With Candy, will be out in theaters in October. She lives alone with her rabbit, Dusty, in New York City.
  • Jim Shepard’s sixth novel, Project X, and second collection of short stories, Love and Hydrogen, were published by Knopf last year.
  • Susan Straight’s new novel, A Million Nightingales, will be published by Pantheon in January 2006.
  • Native Buffalonian Jessica Winter lives in Stoke Newington, London.

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