THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for August 2005

  • Stephen Burt teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, where he supports the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. His books are Popular Music (poetry) and Randall Jarrell and his Age.
  • Mary Guterson is the author of We Are All Fine Here (Putnam, January 2005). She is currently at work on her second novel.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of a novel entitled A Long Way Down.
  • Brian H. Kehrl, the former editor of Sifter magazine, is an unemployed journalist living on Cape Cod.
  • Dennis Lim is film editor at the Village Voice.
  • Sarah Manguso is the author of two books of poems, the second forthcoming. Her third book will be a collection of very short stories.
  • 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.
  • Jason McBride is an editor at Toronto Life magazine and is at work on his first novel.
  • Brian McMullen is art director of Cabinet magazine in Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Peter Owen Nelson is currently an editorial assistant at Harper’s magazine. He is a dog person.
  • David Ng lives in New York and writes about technology, business, popular culture—and the various intersections therein.
  • Tony Perrottet is the author of Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists and The Naked Olympics: the True Story of the Ancient Games (Random House); www.thenakedolympics.com.
  • Jim Roll is a songwriter and recording artist from Ypsilanti, Michigan. He has released three albums. The most recent, Inhabiting the Ball, features songs he cowrote with authors Denis Johnson and Rick Moody.
  • 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.
  • Zadie Smith was born in northwest London in 1975, and continues to live in the area. Her first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Prize. Her second novel The Autograph Man won the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her third novel, On Beauty, will be published later this year, and she is working on a book of essays on ethical thought in twentieth-century fiction. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
  • Tamler Sommers is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is currently writing a book on free will and moral responsibility (denying them).
  • Benjamin Strong lives in Brooklyn, and is working, sometimes, on a novel.
  • Lara Tupper used to be a lounge singer in Dubai. She now teaches writing at Rutgers University and curates the Apocalypse NOW Reading Series in New York City.
  • J. M. Tyree’s recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Nation, Antioch Review, New England Review, and in Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: Best of the McSweeney’s Humor Category.
  • Milton L. Welch is a graduate student in the job market.

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