Contributors
- Steve Almond is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove, 2002) and Candyfreak (Algonquin 2004). His new book is The Evil B. B. Chow & Other Stories. Details and other perversions at www.bbchow.com.
- Oliver Broudy is the managing editor of the Paris Review.
- Carrie Brownstein is a musician and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her band Sleater-Kinney’s new album is entitled The Woods.
- Matthew Derby is the author of Super Flat Times. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Litsa Dremousis wrote, directed, and produced the plays If I Wake Before I Die and 9:00 in the Afternoon. Her work has appeared in Paper, Poets & Writers, Kitchen Sink, Cranky, and on NPR, among other places.
- Fat Bobby plays keyboards in Oneida.
- Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of a novel entitled A Long Way Down.
- Hua Hsu writes about various things for Slate, the Village Voice, the Wire, and other publications. He is working toward a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard.
- James Hunter writes about music and books. His work has appeared in GQ, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, and other magazines and newspapers.
- 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.
- Utrillo Kushner is the marketing manager for Revolver Distribution. In his spare time in plays apeman drums in Comets on Fire along with taking on singing duties for Colossal Yes.
- Sarah Manguso teaches at the Pratt Institute. Her most recent book is the anthology Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books (Subpress, 2004), coedited with Jordan Davis.
- 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.
- John McMillian teaches history and literature at Harvard University. He has published numerous essays, and is co-editor of The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003).
- Morgan Meis is coeditor of Old Town Review and a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York City.
- Miranda F. Mellis is an editor at Encyclopedia (encyclopediaproject.org). Her writing has appeared in BeeHive, Cabinet, the Kenyon Review, Fence, h2so4, Denver Quarterly, and Blithe House Quarterly.
- Rick Moody’s forthcoming novel is entitled The Diviners.
- Adam Novy teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received his M.F.A. in 1998. His work has been published in Verse, Bridge, Quarterly West, and American Letters and Commentary.
- Patton Oswalt is a writer/actor/comedian/producer/asthmatic who lives in Burbank, California.
- Steven Page lives in Toronto. He is a member of Barenaked Ladies. This month (June), he is releasing The Vanity Project, a collaboration with English singer-songwriter Stephen Duffy.
- Ed Park edits The Believer.
- 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.
- Eric Spitznagel is standing right behind you, watching you read this. Surprise!
- J. M. Tyree’s essay “Dr. Thompson’s Wars” appeared in the April issue of the Believer. His work has been published or is forthcoming in New England Review, Antioch Review, and Gettysburg Review.
- Douglas Wolk lives in Portland, Oregon. He recently taught himself to play the entire Bob Dylan catalogue on the ukulele.
