THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for October 2008

  • Maria Bamford stars in her own web sitcom on SuperDeluxe.com and in Comedy Central’s “The Comedians of Comedy Tour.” Her other appearances include Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Comedy Central Presents… Maria Bamford.
  • Jason Boog is a staff writer at Judicial Reports and blogs at the Publishing Spot. He recently finished a novel about toy-soldier conspiracies.
  • James Browning lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He is the co-founder of Dadistan, a blog about fatherhood, and is currently working on a novel.
  • Blake Butler lives in Atlanta and had recently completed two novels. He blogs at blakebutler.blogspot.com.
  • Joshua Clover’s most recent book of poetry, The Totality for Kids, is currently being translated into Polish; his critical book on The Matrix was recently published in Czech. He has just completed a book on pop music and the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (UC Press, 2009).
  • Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Katherine Hill lives and writes in Philadelphia. She has fiction in the current issue of Word Riot.
  • Nick Laird is the author of two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover’s Mistake, as well as two collections of poems, To a Fault and, due out this month from Norton, On Purpose.
  • Greil Marcus will be teaching this fall at the University of Minnesota.
  • Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is working on a novel about accidents, melancholy, and Apollo. He writes about songs at saidthegramophone.com and sometimes mcsweeneys.net. This is his second piece for the Believer.
  • Patricia Mulgraw does not exist.
  • Travis Nichols is a poet and fiction writer living in Seattle. His first collection of poems is forthcoming from Letter Machine Press, and his first novel is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He edits the online magazine Weird Deer.
  • Rachel Poliquin wrote her Ph.D. on seventeenth-century herbal medicine and the vacillations of English humors. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., engaged with all things taxidermy.
  • Mary Rechner’s fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Washington Square, Literary Mama, and the Oregon Literary Review. Her small book Hot Springs was published by Cloverfield Press. She is the Writers in the Schools program director for literary arts in Portland, Oregon.
  • Kevin Sampsell is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as a publisher, father, and bookstore employee in Portland, Oregon. His newest collection of short stories is Creamy Bullets (Chiasmus Press).
  • Amy Sohn is the author of the novels Run Catch Kiss and My Old Man. She has written for New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and the Nation. Her third novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. She grew up in Brooklyn and lives there today.
  • Benjamin Strong is an editor at Fanzine.
  • Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of one novel, Politics, and one essay about novels, The Delighted States.

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