THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for March/April 2009

  • Michael Atkinson’s latest books include a debut novel, Hemingway Deadlights, coming out in August; Flickipedia, cowritten with Laurel Shifrin; and Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood.
  • Natasha Boas, Ph.D., is an independent contemporary art curator and writer based in San Francisco. She has contributed to a range of publications, including Dwell, ArtPress, Domino, Juxtapoz, October, and French Vogue. She is a devout French cinephile.
  • 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.
  • Aaron Cutler is the coauthor of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio (with Rory O’Connor). He lives in New York City.
  • Antonino D’Ambrosio’s upcoming book is called A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears with original art by Shepard Fairey. His most recent film is No Free Lunch, starring Lewis Black.
  • William Giraldi teaches in the writing program at Boston University and is senior fiction editor for the journal AGNI. New essays are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review and TriQuarterly.
  • Heidi Julavits edits the Believer.
  • Steven G. Kellman’s books include Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, The Translingual Imagination, and The Self-Begetting Novel. A recipient of the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, he teaches comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
  • B. Kite lives in Brooklyn.
  • Alex Kitnick has participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of art and archaeology at Princeton University.
  • C.S. Leigh is a writer and filmmaker.
  • Greil Marcus is currently the Winton Chair Fellow at the University of Minnesota.
  • Michael McGriff is the author of Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Choke (Traprock Books, 2006). His poetry and translations have appeared in Slate, AGNI, the Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, and FIELD, among other publications.
  • Victoria Nelson is writing a new collection of essays called Gothicka. Her last two books were The Secret Life of Puppets and Wild California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Patton Oswalt is a writer/actor/comedian/producer/asthmatic who lives in Burbank, California.
  • Jacob Perlin is a film programmer at BAMCinematek in Brooklyn, New York and founder of the Film Desk.
  • Shelley Salamensky is a professor at UCLA. Her essay “Postcards from Birobidzhan: The Life and Death and Life of the Jewish Autonomous Republic” appeared in the most recent issue of Guilt & Pleasure.
  • R. Emmet Sweeney writes for IFC News and Termite Art, while Andrea Janes is finishing a screenplay in which Mabel Normand solves a murder mystery. They eloped in order to have someone to go to the movies and eat mac and cheese with.
  • Chloe Veltman is an arts journalist based in San Francisco.
  • Jessica Winter is a writer in New York.

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