THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for August 2006

  • Joshuah Bearman is a writer and, along with his girlfriend, a jewelry proprietor. He lives in Hollywood, where he is a contributor to the LA Weekly and other publications.
  • Stephen Burt’s new book of poems is Parallel Play (Graywolf Press). He supports the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
  • Benjamin Cohen is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He lives near Charlottesville with his wife, Chris, and two children. They all remain exceptional.
  • Trinie Dalton lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of a short-story collection, Wide Eyed. She also coedited Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is, a book based on notes she confiscated as a high school teacher.
  • Jenny Davidson teaches at Columbia University and blogs at Light Reading.
  • Phyllis Fong lives in Brooklyn. She works for the Village Voice.
  • Andrew Friedman’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia.
  • Robin Hemley is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Turning Life into Fiction and Invented Eden. 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.
  • Scott Indrisek is the New York editor for Anthem, and he also writes regularly for BlackBook, the New York Observer, and Clear. You can catch Mr. Indrisek, his self-inflicted mullet, and the interior of his formerly turquoise apartment in the Soderbergh short on Wholphin vol. 2.
  • Trevor Koski grew up in in a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He last saw Bissler two years ago, standing outside Mueller’s Pizza on Main Street. Bissler wore a Garibaldi beard and a camouflage green jacket. They went inside and talked about Bissler’s baby girl. Her name is Sasha.
  • Pete L’Official is a writer from the Bronx. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, Pitchfork, and Salon, and he contributes, when he can, to the archivist collective l’academie donkée, curiously not headquartered in France.
  • Kevin Sampsell is the editor of The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night (Manic D Press), the author of Beautiful Blemish (Word Riot Press), and a bookstore employee living in Portland, Oregon.
  • Theo Schell-Lambert is a regular contributor to the Village Voice and several other publications. He lives in San Francisco.
  • Ross Simonini is one third of the band Trespassers William. He is working on a book and an album.
  • Jude Stewart writes frequently about design and culture for Slate, I.D., NPR, Print, Metropolis, and others. She’s currently living in Berlin on a European Journalism Fellowship from the Freie Universität Berlin. Read more at judestewart.com.
  • Mark Sundeen is the author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro, and the coeditor of Great God Pan magazine. He writes for Outside, the New York Times, and other publications.
  • Lara Tupper used to be a lounge singer in Dubai and now teaches fiction at Rutgers University. Her first novel, A Thousand and One Nights, will be published by Harcourt in February 2007. Her website is laratupper.com.
  • Vendela Vida edits the Believer.
  • Oscar Villalon is the book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and is on the board of directors for the National Book Critics Circle. He and his wife live in San Francisco’s Mission District.
  • Alexander Zaitchik is South Asia correspondent for the eXile, an alternative newspaper in Moscow.

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