THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for September 2007

  • Elizabeth Baird spends the majority of her time in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she tells people that she grew up in San Francisco. She grew up in San Rafael, CA.
  • Jason Boog is a staff writer at Judicial Reports and blogs at The Publishing Spot. He is finishing a novel about toy soldier conspiracies.
  • 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.
  • Christopher Byrd is a frequent contributor to the Believer.
  • Andrew Ervin’s stories have appeared in Fiction International, Prague Literary Review, Oxford Magazine, the anthology Chicago Noir, and elsewhere. He’s an MFA student in fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Nick Hornby lives in North London. His new novel for young adults, Slam, will be published in October, 2007.
  • Brendan Hughes is an MFA student in nonfiction at Columbia University. He is currently researching an account of the largest art heist in American history.
  • Mark Kamine has written for the New York Times Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He works on movies and recently line produced Interview, directed by Steve Buscemi. He lives in New Jersey, exit 151.
  • Thomas Lennon has starred in Reno 911!, Viva Variety, and The State, among other TV shows and films. He also works as a screenwriter.
  • Colin Meloy plays guitar and sings in the Decemberists. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
  • Ander Monson teaches at Grand Valley State University. His most recent book is Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf, 2007). Find his list of the best pop songs since 1986 online at otherelectricities.com/pop.
  • Nick Poppy is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn.
  • Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has written for the Believer, the Times Literary Supplement, and several scholarly journals. He is currently writing a book on honor cultures, moral responsibility, and the emotions.
  • Eric Spitznagel writes for magazines like Playboy, Esquire, Maxim, Blender, and this one. He is the author of six books, his most recent being Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter (Manic D Press, 2006).
  • R. Emmet Sweeney writes for IFC News and helps to maintain the film blog Termite Art (termiteart.blogspot.com).
  • Gustavo Turner’s first book, The Play Is Lost, is forthcoming from the Penguin Press.
  • Amanda Eyre Ward is the author, most recently, of the novel Forgive Me. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her family.

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