THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for April 2007

  • Steve Almond is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. A collection of essays, (Not That You Asked), comes out in September.
  • Daphne Beal’s first novel, In the Land of No Right Angles, will be published by Vintage/Anchor Books in 2008.
  • Peter Bebergal is coauthor, with Scott Korb, of the book The Faith Between Us, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in November 2007. He is also an editor at zeek.net.
  • James Browning lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. After a humiliating defeat in his campaign for the Maryland House of Delegates, he is writing a tell-all book about his sex life.
  • Scott Browning is director of Hall Farm Center in Townshend, Vermont.
  • Stephen Burt’s new books are Parallel Play and Shot Clocks: Poems for the WNBA. His study of modern poetry and adolescence will be published by Columbia University Press in late 2007.
  • Hillary Chute will be a Junior Fellow in literature in the Harvard Society of Fellows starting in the fall. She is currently working with Art Spiegelman on his book project MetaMaus.
  • Benjamin Cohen is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He’s also taken to coauthoring The World’s Fair at scienceblogs.com/worldsfair. He lives near Charlottesville with his wife, Chris, and two children. They all continue to be exceptional.
  • Paul Collins teaches creative nonfiction at Portland State University. His latest book is The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine.
  • Janeane Garofalo is a comedian, writer, political activist, and retired bike messenger.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, a collection of his columns from this magazine.
  • Max Klinger lives in San Francisco, where, among other things, he waits patiently for new episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter.
  • Christine Lagorio has written about university professors who watch pro wrestling and about poets in the army. She has contributed to a number of weekly newspapers as well as the New York Times and CBS News. She often reads on the subway.
  • Greg Larson lives, works, and writes in San Francisco.
  • Rod O’Connor is a frequent contributor to the Chicago Tribune and Time Out Chicago and has written for Spin and ESPN The Magazine. He lives in Chicago, and enjoys writing about marginal activities created to pass the time.
  • Carlo Rotella’s most recent book is Cut Time: An Education at the Fights.
  • Ross Simonini is one-fourth of the band Trespassers William. He is also the music editor at identitytheory.com and Resonance magazine.
  • Suzanne Snider is a writer based in Brooklyn. She is currently at work on a nonfiction book about a communal society divided into two adjacent factions.
  • Jonathan Taylor was born in El Cerrito, California, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is now an editor living in New York. He has written about books for Bookforum, the Village Voice, the Nation, Time Out, Newsday, and the Stranger.
  • Milton L. Welch teaches at North Carolina State and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • C. D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation is out (Copper Canyon Press). The poems in this issue are from the forthcoming Rising, Falling, Hovering.

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