THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for November/December 2009

  • Katie Bachner lives in the Bay Area, where she is a freelance writer and curator at Johansson Projects.
  • Comedian Elizabeth Beckwith’s first book, Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation is in stores now from HarperCollins. One of seven comics featured in the TIME magazine article, “Funny: The Next Generation,” Elizabeth has been seen on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Late Late Show.
  • Christopher Benz lives and works in the Bay Area.
  • Franklin Bruno’s writing appears; so do his recordings. The most recent, respectively, are Policy Instrument (Lame House Press), and Local Currency: Solo 1992–1998 (Fayettenam Records). He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens.
  • Alvin Buenaventura is the publisher of Buenaventura Press.
  • Jeff Chang wrote Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. Morrie Turner is part of the polychromatic cast of Jeff’s next book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America.
  • Hillary Chute’s book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics is coming out from Columbia University Press in Fall 2010.
  • Joshua Cohen is the author of five books, including the novels Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, A Heaven of Others, and the forthcoming Witz (Dalkey Archive Press, Spring 2010), the story of the Last Jew in the World. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Michael A. Elliott is a professor and administrator at Emory University in Atlanta. He writes about historical storytelling, and his most recent book is Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer.
  • 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.
  • Michael Paul Mason is the author of Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath.
  • Alan Michael Parker is the author or editor of nine books, including a novel, Cry Uncle, and a collection of poems, Elephants & Butterflies. His work on museums includes essays on the Bellagio Gallery in Las Vegas and the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written four books.
  • Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs and the novel Rose of No Man’s Land. She curates the monthly RADAR Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library.
  • 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.
  • Chris Ware lives in Oak Park, Illinois. He is currently serializing two new graphic novels in his ongoing periodical The ACME Novelty Library, the twentieth issue of which will appear in 2010.

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