THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for July/August 2008

  • John Adamian is the managing editor of the Hartford Advocate. His writing has appeared in Arthur magazine, Relix, and other publications. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
  • Steve Almond is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow. His most recent book is a collection of essays, (Not That You Asked).
  • Andy Beta used to conduct in-depth interviews for disability insurance benefits and lump sum death payments for the Social Security Administration. Now he just conducts them in his pajamas for places like Spin, the Village Voice, and Stop Smiling.
  • Blake Butler recently finished writing a novel in ten days in a David Lynch mode. He is the editor of Lamination Colony and blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.
  • 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.
  • Alex V. Cook is a music critic from Baton Rouge and music editor for outsideleft.com. His work has appeared in the Oxford American, the Wire, and metal magazine Hails and Horns. His first book, Darkness, Racket, and Twang, was published by Side Cartel in 2006. He blogs furiously at alexvcook.com.
  • T Cooper is the author of the novels Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and Some of the Parts.
  • Christopher DeLaurenti is a composer, improviser, and phonographer. His latest album is Favorite Intermissions: Music Before and Between Beethoven-Stravinsky-Holst. His music and other writings reside at delaurenti.net.
  • Lavinia Greenlaw is a poet and novelist who lives in London. Her most recent collection was Minsk (2003) and her first book of nonfiction, The Importance of Music to Girls, was recently published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
  • Theodore McDermott grew up in South Carolina and now lives in Chicago, where he writes stories and essays. Rumors of a nearly completed novel have been circulating for months.
  • Ange Mlinko’s most recent book of poems is Starred Wire (Coffee House Press). She lives in the Hudson Valley.
  • Rick Moody’s most recent book is Right Livelihoods, a collection of three novellas.
  • Haruki Murakami lives near Tokyo. For The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, he was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. The most recent of his many honors are the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (Ireland, 2006), the Franz Kafka Prize (Czech Republic, 2006), and the Asahi Prize (Japan, 2006). Murakami’s work has been translated into more than forty languages. His forthcoming memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running will be published by Knopf in July.
  • Davy Rothbart makes Found magazine, contributes to public radio’s This American Life, and wrote a book of stories called The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and High Times. If you’ve found something cool, please send it to him at his folks’ house—details at foundmagazine.com.
  • Matthew Simmons is the Man Who Couldn’t Blog and the interviews editor for the journal Hobart. He lives in Seattle.
  • Ross Simonini is the interviews editor for the Believer.
  • Brandon Stosuy blogs at Stereogum and writes a metal column at Pitchfork. “Formulas Fatal To The Flesh,” his essay for Matthew Barney’s exhibition at Sammlung Goetz this past fall, was named after a Morbid Angel album, though he doesn’t think the gallery realized it. He’s currently at work on a book-length oral history of non-Scandinavian black metal.
  • Douglas Wolk lives in Portland, Oregon, runs the record label Dark Beloved Cloud, and sings karaoke every Monday night. His most recent book is Reading Comics.

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