THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for March/April 2008

  • Michael Atkinson’s latest books include Flickipedia (Chicago Review Press), cowritten with Laurel Shifrin; Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press); and a debut collection of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works).
  • David Cairns is the writer/director of several films, including the award-winning short Cry for Bobo. When not making films, he sees them, thinks about them, teaches about them, and writes about them. He runs an eccentric film blog called Shadowplay, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Helen DeWitt is a novelist. Op. 101, The Last Samurai, was published as a “first novel” in 2000. An excerpt from Your Name Here, a collaboration with Ilya Gridneff, appeared recently in n+1. She is now working on two books begun during a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006‒07. She lives in Berlin.
  • Larry Doyle, a former writer for The Simpsons, works in showbiz and writes funny things for the New Yorker. He lives outside Baltimore with his wife, Becky, their three children, and one dog, until it dies, and then no more dogs, according to the wife. His novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, is being made into a movie directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere.
  • Darren Franich lives and writes in San Francisco.
  • Nick Hornby lives in North London. His most recent book is Slam, a novel for young adults.
  • B. Kite lives in Brooklyn.
  • Chuck Klosterman writes for various media outlets and is the author of four nonfiction books. His first novel, Downtown Owl, will be released by Scribner in September.
  • Erik Lundegaard is an editor at Law & Politics in Seattle. He has written for the New York Times, MSNBC, Slate, Film Quarterly, and the Huffington Post.
  • Jason McBride lives in Toronto and contributes to Toronto Life, Cinema Scope, the Globe and Mail, and other publications.
  • Devin McKinney, the author of Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History, writes for numerous publications and logs his musical opinions at popwithashotgun.blogspot.com. He’s currently writing a book on Henry Fonda.
  • Robert Polito’s most recent books are the poetry collection Hollywood & God (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press) and The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (forthcoming from Harvard University Press). The founder and director of the graduate writing program at the New School, he is currently completing Detours: Seven Noir Lives.
  • Rolf Potts is the author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel (Random House, 2003). His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and the 2000 and 2006 editions of The Best American Travel Writing. When not traveling, he is based in rural Saline County, Kansas.
  • Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X (Knopf, 2004) and three story collections, most recently Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Knopf, 2007).
  • Ross Simonini is the interviews editor for the Believer.
  • R. Emmet Sweeney writes for IFC News and helps to maintain the film blog Termite Art.
  • Formerly a graphic designer of film posters for Fellini, Pasolini, and Preminger, David Weisman produced Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which he received an Academy Award Best Picture nomination. He codirected Ciao! Manhattan (1972) and coauthored Edie: Girl on Fire (Chronicle Books, 2006).

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