THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for November 2005

  • Michael Atkinson is a writer for the Village Voice. His latest book was a debut collection of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works).
  • Christopher Byrd is a frequent contributor to the magazine.
  • Carrie Clifford is an actor and writer living in Los Angeles. She is half of the comedy duo Clifford & Kidd and half of the improv show Razowsky & Clifford. She also occasionally writes or performs on shows that do not contain her name in the title.
  • John Domini’s next book will be the novel Earthquake I.D. See www.johndomini.com.
  • Ben Ehrenreich lives in Los Angeles. His first novel, The Suitors, will be published next spring by Counterpoint Press.
  • Jenn Habel’s poems have appeared recently in Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, and From the Fishouse. She lives in Colorado Springs.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of a novel titled A Long Way Down.
  • Dan Johnson grew up in the California desert and went to school in Los Angeles 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.
  • Mark Kamine has written for the New York Times Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the assistant production manager of the HBO series The Sopranos. Moreover, he lives in New Jersey.
  • Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. English-language translations of his books include the novels All Souls, A Heart So White, and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, and the short-story collection When I Was Mortal.
  • James McManus is the author of Positively Fifth Street and Going to the Sun. A chapter that appeared in Esquire has been reprinted in Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, and Best American Political Writing.
  • John O’Connor is a foreign correspondent for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper. Neither young nor idealistic, he recently had the honor of being the sole gentile on the notorious Brooklyn kickball squad The Idealistic Young Jews.
  • Lakis Polycarpou is a writer living in New York City. He is currently working on a political novel about the island of Cyprus, whenever he’s not obsessively blogging about peak oil and the end of civilization at www.nea-polis.net. This is his first interview for the Believer.
  • Chad W. Post is the Associate Director for Dalkey Archive Press, a nonprofit publisher located at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
  • Milana Vuković Runjić lives in Zagreb. She writes poetry, fiction, and columns for several periodicals, and runs a small publishing house with her husband.
  • Stephen Schenkenberg lives in Madison, Wis., and is the book editor of PlaybackSTL. His novella, Twine, will be published next spring at Kinko’s. He can be found on the web at www.stephenschenkenberg.com.
  • Anthony Schneider is the author of Tony Soprano on Management. He was born in South Africa and now lives in New York.
  • Amy Sedaris is an acclaimed career waitress who occasionally writes and performs when her schedule permits. She lives with her rabbit, Dusty, in New York City.
  • 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. Her first novel, A Thousand and One Nights, is complete.

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