THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for October 2009

  • Stephen Burt’s book of essays, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, is out now!
  • Louis C. K. can be seen in the film The Invention of Lying and the NBC series Parks and Recreation. His Emmy-nominated special, Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, is available on CD and DVD.
  • Avi Davis is from New York City and can sometimes still be found there. More of his writing can be read at the blog Some Reservations and at inthevalley.tumblr.com.
  • Scott Geiger is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. His story “A Design History of Icebergs and Their Applications” appears in the spring 2009 issue of Conjunctions.
  • J.C. Hallman is the author, most recently, of a book of stories, The Hospital for Bad Poets. “A House Is a Machine to Live In” is an excerpt from a book on utopian thought to appear in 2010 from St. Martin’s Press.
  • Sheila Heti is the author of the novel Ticknor and the story collection The Middle Stories. She recently appeared as Lenore Doolan in Leanne Shapton’s book Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris.
  • August Kleinzahler was born and raised in New Jersey. His most recent collection of poetry, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest book is Music: I-LXXIV, a collection of music essays, published by Pressed Wafer. He currently lives in San Francisco.
  • Jessica Loudis is a Brooklyn-based writer and media junkie. She currently works as a news aggregator for Slate, and is an associate editor at Conjunctions.
  • Nina MacLaughlin lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and works as an apprentice to a carpenter.
  • 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.
  • Lincoln Michel is a coeditor of Gigantic and the books editor of the Faster Times. His writing appears or is forthcoming in NOON, the Oxford American, and Bookforum, among other publications.
  • M. Rebekah Otto lives in Berkeley, California. She is the assistant books editor of the Rumpus and an editorial aide at Atlas Obscura.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written four books.
  • Andre Perry lives in Iowa City. He co-manages Mission Freak Records and is writing a memoir about his misadventures in San Francisco rock bands.
  • 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.
  • Ginger Strand, a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction, is author of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power & Lies and a novel, Flight. She is a contributing editor at Orion.
  • Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of eight collections of plays and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. White Egrets is his fourteenth collection of poems.
  • James Wallenstein’s work has appeared in GQ, the Boston, Hudson, and Antioch reviews, and Jacket. His forthcoming novel is The Arriviste.

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