THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for August 2007

  • Samuel Amadon’s recent poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Modern Review, and VOLT.
  • Tom Barbash is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance.
  • Todd Barry has appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, his own two “Comedy Central Presents” specials, The Larry Sanders Show, Chappelle’s Show, and elsewhere. His latest CD/DVD, Falling Off the Bone, was released on Comedy Central Records.
  • Victor Brand is a freelance writer in New York who writes about photographers, writers, and Frenchmen, the more obscure the better.
  • Robert Cohen is the author of four books, including most recently Inspired Sleep and The Varieties of Romantic Experience (Vintage).
  • Kevin Dole 2 is the author of Tangerinephant. He lives and works in Ypsilanti, Michigan, not far from where Iggy Pop grew up.
  • Elizabeth Isadora Gold is working on her first novel, Don’t Touch Me! She’s also written about soul music and paper dolls. She lives in Brooklyn.
  • Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several books of fiction, including the recently published A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both (MacAdam/Cage). He lives in Brooklyn.
  • Nick Hornby lives in North London. His new novel for young adults, Slam, will be published in October.
  • Robert Ito has written for the Village Voice, Giant Robot, and the New York Times. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Hyunu, and his son, Ezekiel.
  • Maura Kelly is starting over on a novel about starting over. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Observer, Salon, Glamour, the Washington Post, and other publications.
  • Alec Michod grew up in Chicago, an 851-mile car ride from Jamestown.
  • Adam Novy lives in Brooklyn.
  • 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.
  • Andy Selsberg last wrote for the Believer in May 2006 about teen sex comedies of the early 1980s.
  • James Tate is the author, most recently, of Return to the City of White Donkeys (2005). Previous collections include Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994), which won the National Book Award, and Selected Poems (1991), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Forthcoming is Ghost Soldiers (2007).
  • Kate Zambreno is a writer living in Chicago. She just finished Green Girl, her first novel.

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