THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for June/July 2007

  • Amy Benfer is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn.
  • 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.
  • Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright (After Ashley, U.S. Drag) and television writer (Law and Order: Criminal Intent).She last wrote for the Believer about Elliott Smith (June 2004 music issue). She lives in New York.
  • Joe Hagan is a contributing editor at New York magazine. He’s written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and GQ. He lives in New York.
  • Nick Hornby is the author, most recently, of Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, a collection of his columns from this magazine.
  • Miranda July writes fiction and makes movies and performances. Her book of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You, was published in May. She lives in Los Angeles.
  • Miles Marshall Lewis is editor of Bronx Biannual, the journal of urbane urban literature. His third book, The Noir Album: On Life in Multicultural Paris, is due in 2008. He usually prefers sophomore albums to debuts.
  • John McMillian lectures on history and literature at Harvard University.
  • Dan Nelson has photographed in Connecticut, read in Maryland, drummed in California, swum in New Jersey, sailed in Hong Kong, fished in Quebec, ballooned in Switzerland, and drunk in Bermuda. Someday he’ll sleep in Finland.
  • Courtney Queeney graduated from the Syracuse University MFA Program. Her first collection, Filibuster to Delay a Kiss and Other Poems (Random House), is forthcoming in June.
  • John Sellers is the author of Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life. He’s written for GQ, Spin, and the New York Times, and half-assedly maintains a blog at johnsellers.net. This is his first essay for the Believer.
  • Ross Simonini is also known as the solo artist Rooos!, a member of Trespassers William, an editor at Resonance magazine, an editor at identitytheory.com, and a guy with half a book done.
  • Brandon Stosuy, a staff writer and columnist at Pitchfork and columnist at Stereogum, contributes art, book, and music criticism to various publications. Up Is Up, But So Is Down, his anthology of downtown New York literature, was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year.
  • Dave Tompkins lives in Brooklyn, where he’s working on his first book, I Have No Vocoder And I Must Scream. Dr. Phibes’ remote control shrink-to-kill toad helmet will be included.

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