THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for September 2006

  • Brian J. Barr is the music editor at the Seattle Weekly.
  • Chris Baty and his friends invented “Overrated” in a Winnebago. Chris lives in Oakland, where he runs the National Novel Writing Month project (NaNoWriMo.org).
  • 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.
  • Peter Bebergal is coauthor, with Scott Korb, of the book The Faith Between Us, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Some of his recent writing has appeared in the Jewish Quarterly and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. He is also an editor at zeek.net.
  • Christopher R. Beha lives in New York, where he recently completed his first novel.
  • Stephen Burt’s new books of poems are Parallel Play (Graywolf Press) and Shot Clocks: Poems and an Essay for the WNBA (Harry Tankoos).
  • Sara Crosby writes and teaches in New York City. Her little brother, Paul, a 2006 graduate of Webster Groves High School, just successfully managed to stack not one but seven tires around the flagpole outside the high school’s main entrance.
  • Litsa Dremousis’s work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including BlackBook, Nylon, Paper, Poets and Writers, and the Seattle Weekly. Her short story “The Cousinfucker” appears in Monkeybicycle’s upcoming comedy anthology. She is writing her first novel.
  • Thomas Haley writes essays, book reviews, and advertising copy. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Stephanie.
  • Ed Halter’s essay was adapted from his book From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games, recently published by Thunder’s Mouth Press. A writer for the Village Voice, his work has appeared in Kunstforum, Computer Gaming World, Vice, Millennium Film Journal, and many fine publications. He is cocurator of the Parker Tyler Memorial Library in New York City.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of a novel titled A Long Way Down. His second collection of columns from this magazine, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, is available this month from Believer Books.
  • Paul La Farge is the author of three books, The Artist of the Missing; Haussmann, or the Distinction; and The Facts of Winter. He is currently working on two more novels.
  • John Lee and Vernon Chatman are the poets/dicks behind the television show Wonder Showzen, a comedy on MTV2 that parodies children’s TV. John and Vernon are not just funny; they’re also generous of spirit, taking the time to really enjoy life, while making their wives write their bios. The Wonder Showzen season-two DVD comes out October 17.
  • Thomas March is a poet and essayist. Recent work is forthcoming in Diner, New Letters, The North Atlantic Review, Shenandoah, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. He teaches at the Brearley School, in New York.
  • Brian McMullen has made sixteen Believer charts, many of them in collaboration with talented strangers. He is managing editor at BOMB magazine in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Adam Novy teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Georges Perec was born in Paris in 1936. He studied sociology at the Sorbonne and later worked as a public-opinion pollster and a research librarian, until his literary activity allowed him to support himself financially. Notable works include Les choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties, 1965), La disparition (A Void, 1969), Espèces d’espaces (Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 1974), and La vie mode d’emploi (Life A User’s Manual, 1978). He died in 1982.
  • Henri Picciotto, a native speaker of French, knows English well enough to be the coeditor of National Puzzlers’ League Cryptic Crosswords (Random House, 2005). As a mathematics educator, he has taught everything from counting to calculus and has written many books and articles. Visit his website, picciotto.org.
  • William Poundstone is the author of ten books, most recently Fortune’s Formula (Hill and Wang). He lives in Los Angeles and is interested in outsider literature.
  • Arthur Schulman, a veteran American crossword maker, taught for thirty-three years in the psychology department at the University of Virginia, where he conducted many seminars on the mind of the puzzler. He is the author of “The Art of the Puzzler,” in Cognitive Ecology, edited by M. P. Friedman & E. C. Carterette (Academic Press 1996).
  • Ross Simonini is one-third of the band Trespassers William. He is working on a book and an album.
  • Ben Tausig is a freelance crossword constructor and writer living in Brooklyn. His puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Reader, Village Voice, and San Francisco Bay Guardian, among many others, and he has contributed articles to the Associated Press and Dusted magazine.
  • Joe Wenderoth has published two books of poems with Wesleyan Press, Disfortune and It Is if I Speak. He has also published two books with Verse Press (now Wave Books), Letters to Wendy’s and The Holy Spirit Of Life: Essays Written For John Ashcroft’s Secret Self. He teaches in the graduate creative-writing program at UC Davis.
  • Douglas Wolk lives in Portland, Oregon, runs the record label Dark Beloved Cloud, and sings karaoke every Monday night. His book Reading Comics will be published by Da Capo next year.

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