THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for June 2009

  • Judd Apatow wrote and directed the films Knocked Up and the upcoming Funny People and was the cowriter and director of The 40 Year Old Virgin. He was also the executive producer of the television series Freaks and Geeks.
  • Jonathan Ball is a writer with two books of poetry forthcoming from BookThug: Ex Machina and The Words of the Book (cowritten with Kevin McPherson Eckhoff). He is completing a PhD in English literature at the University of Calgary.
  • Christopher Benz’s most recent project was an oral history for The Rumpus.net.
  • Stephen Burt’s book of essays, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is out now!
  • Dan Chiasson teaches at Wellesley College. His next book of poems, Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, will be published this year by Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Ben George is editor of the literary journal Ecotone, and of the just-released anthology The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood (Ecco/HarperCollins). He teaches at UNC Wilmington.
  • Steve Hely is the author of How I Became a Famous Novelist, available from Grove/Atlantic in July.
  • Rozalia Jovanovic is a founding editor of Gigantic, and the New York bureau chief for The Rumpus.net. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Columbia University. Her writing has been published in Guernica, elimae, and at Esquire.com.
  • David Jacob Kramer is from Sydney, Australia, and now based in Los Angeles. He was included in the Best Australian Stories 2006 (Black Inc). He is co-proprietor of the bookstore, Family, and art gallery, Hope.
  • Jonathan Lethem’s eighth novel, Chronic City, will be published in October.
  • Paul Madonna writes and draws two weekly strips, All Over Coffee in the San Francisco Chronicle, and Small Potatoes on The Rumpus.net. His first book, All Over Coffee, was published in 2007 by City Lights Books, and the first edition of his new drawing-book series, Album, will be published this November by Electric Works. Go to paulmadonna.com for more.
  • Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music, and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice, and other books. His column, Real Life Rock Top Ten, runs monthly in the Believer.
  • Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of The Babies (Saturnalia Books, 2004) and Tsim Tsum (forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in October). She teaches at Agnes Scott College and the University of Georgia.
  • Garrett McDonough is a writer living in New York City, and is working on a novel about the paparazzi. He once forced his girlfriend to name her purebred cat Patrick Bateman.
  • Rick Moody is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir. He plays music in the Wingdale Community Singers. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
  • Geoff Nicholson’s works of fiction and nonfiction include The Food Chain, Bleeding London, and Sex Collectors. His novel Gravity’s Volkswagen will be published in England later this year. He writes a food blog about the wilder shores of gastronomy at psycho-gourmet.blogspot.com.
  • Joel Rice is still coping with the sobering reality that he never became a professional skateboarder. He now writes Flip, a column about skateboarding, for mcsweeneys.net.
  • Jim Ruland is the author of the short-story collection Big Lonesome and the host of Vermin on the Mount, an irreverent reading series in the heart of L.A.’s Chinatown.
  • Michael Schulman is on the editorial staff of the New Yorker. An account of his brush with the online spanking industry appears in the book Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled.
  • Brandon Stosuy blogs at Stereogum and writes a metal column at Pitchfork.
  • Don Waters is the author of the award-winning story collection Desert Gothic. He lives in Santa Fe.

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