THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for March 2006

  • Lou Anders is the editorial director of Pyr, the science-fiction and fantasy imprint of Prometheus Books, and the editor of various critically acclaimed anthologies, latest of which is FutureShocks. Visit him online at www.louanders.com.
  • Rachel Aviv has written about books for the Village Voice, Nerve, and Salon.
  • Gary Belsky is an executive editor at ESPN magazine. An adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, he has been a regular commentator on CNN’s Your Money and a frequent contributor to Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Crossfire, and Oprah. In 1990, Belsky won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in New York City.
  • Thom Blaylock is the editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and cocreator of Project Flamingo. He lives in New York City.
  • Christopher Bollen is a writer and critic in New York. He’s also the editor of V magazine and is working on his first novel—which was supposed to be about death but seems to be only, predictably, about love. He’s also taking Spanish classes and wants to go into hiding somewhere in South America.
  • Stephen Burt’s brand-new book of poems is Parallel Play (Graywolf Press). He supports the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
  • John Domini’s next book will be the novel Earthquake I.D. See www.johndomini.com.
  • Jeff Fort is the author of a forthcoming book on the “imperative to write” in Kafka, Beckett, and Maurice Blanchot. He has also translated books by Blanchot, Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, and, most recently, Jean-Luc Nancy. He currently teaches at U.C. Berkeley and at the San Francisco Art Institute.
  • Robin Hemley is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction. His popular craft book, Turning Life into Fiction, will be reissued in an expanded verison in April 2006 from Graywolf Press, and his book Invented Eden will appear in paperback in fall 2006 from University of Nebraska Press. He is the director of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of a novel titled A Long Way Down.
  • Andrew Losowsky gave a talk at the Seventh Great Obituary Writers’ International Conference 2005. He lives in Madrid where he’s currently writing about Italian doorbells.
  • 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. This spring Believer Books will publish his second novel, Voyage Along the Horizon.
  • Jason McBride writes about books, movies, and music for Toronto Life, the Village Voice, Cinema Scope, and other publications. He lives in Toronto.
  • Devin McKinney, author of Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (Harvard) and a music column for the American Prospect Online (www.prospect.org), recently renamed his wife’s cat “Little Taco.”
  • Brian McMullen is a musician based in Brooklyn, N.Y. You can find his best song, “co-workers,” by Googling “crude futures coworkers mp3.”
  • Meghan O’Rourke is the culture editor of Slate, and a poetry editor at the Paris Review. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere, and her first book, Halflife, will be published next spring.
  • Richard Powers’s ninth novel, The Echo Maker, will be published in October by FSG.
  • Theo Schell-Lambert is a regular contributor to the Village Voice and several other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
  • David Shields, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of eight books, including Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Remote, winner of the PEN/Revson Award.
  • Sarah Silverman is a comedian and actress. If you shave the hair away, she has a beautiful face.
  • Eric Spitznagel, when not writing and editing for the Believer, also contributes to rags like Playboy and Monkeybicycle. His next book, Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter, will be published by Future Tense Press in May. His mother is not amused.
  • Sarah Stone is the author of a novel, The True Sources of the Nile, and cowrote, with Ron Nyren, Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. She codirects the M.A./M.F.A. Program in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California in San Francisco.

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