THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for September 2009

  • Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the crime novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, and Die a Little, and the nonfiction study The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She is also the editor of the collection A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir. Her latest novel is Bury Me Deep.
  • Anne Beatts has written for theatre, film, television, radio, books, magazines, newspapers, and new media. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her seven-year-old daughter. If you want more, there’s Google.
  • Stephen Burt’s book of essays, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is out now!
  • Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia and lives near Charlottesville with his wife, Chris, and two children. Their exceptionality continues unabated. His book, Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside, is being published this fall.
  • Rich Cohen is the author of Tough Jews and Sweet and Low: A Family Story. His new book, Israel Is Real, was published earlier this year by FSG. He lives in the foothills of large mountains with his wife, his many children, and another man’s dog.
  • Tony DuShane is the author of Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (Soft Skull Press, February 2010). His articles and essays frequently appear in the San Francisco Chronicle, Crawdaddy, and elsewhere.
  • Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the true-crime memoir The Adderall Diaries. He is the founding editor of the Rumpus, online at therumpus.net.
  • Sara Gran is the author of a number of novels including Dope and Come Closer. She lives in California.
  • Laird Hunt is the author of The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite, and, most recently, Ray of the Star.
  • 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.
  • Francesca Mari has written for the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written four books.
  • Damion Searls is the author of two books, Everything You Say Is True and What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, and an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch. He is publishing six books in 2009, including ; or The Whale and a (normal) abridgment of Thoreau’s seven-thousand-page Journal for NYRB Classics. More info and excerpts at damionsearls.com.
  • Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. His collection of interviews, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain, is out next month from Believer Books. He is currently writing a book about cross-cultural perspectives on moral responsibility entitled Relative Justice (Princeton University Press).
  • Jude Stewart has written on design and culture for Slate, I.D., Metropolis, BusinessWeek, and Print. She has a column on color for STEP Inside Design. She now tweets on color daily at twitter.com/joodstew.
  • J.T. Thomas teaches anthropology and rhetoric at the University of Iowa. His work on the enigmatic slate burial plaques of Neolithic Iberia has appeared in several archaeological journals. His favorite fruit is the pomegranate.
  • Lara Tupper (laratupper.com) is the author of A Thousand and One Nights, a novel about cruise-ship singers. Like Hemingway, she writes six-word tales. (Please see Smith magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak.) Unlike Hemingway, she has a lengthy commute.
  • Kate Zambreno’s first novel, O Fallen Angel, is being published by Chiasmus Press in Spring 2010, having won its 2008 First Book Contest. She has also finished a novel, Green Girl, and a creative nonfiction work, Book of Mutter.
  • Scott Zieher was born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He is co-owner of the contemporary-art gallery ZieherSmith Inc. The selection published herein is a portion of his second book-length poem, Impatience, which will be released later this year by Emergency Press.

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