THE BELIEVER

Contributors

for February 2010

  • Daniel Alarcón is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning magazine published in his native Lima, Peru. His novel Lost City Radio won the 2009 International Literature Prize. His most recent book of stories, El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo, was published in Mexico, Peru, and is forthcoming in Spain and elsewhere.
  • Alvin Buenaventura is the publisher of Buenaventura Press.
  • Brandon Bussolini is a freelance music writer living in Oakland. He has written for Dusted magazine, XLR8R, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among others.
  • Julio Villanueva Chang is the founding editor of Etiqueta Negra. He is the author of Criminal Praises, a book of profiles, and the winner of the Interamerican Press Association Award in feature writing. His profile of the blind mayor of Cali (Colombia) was published in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
  • Robert Cohen is the author of five books of fiction, most recently Amateur Barbarians and Inspired Sleep. He teaches at Middlebury College.
  • Meehan Crist is Reviews Editor for the Believer.
  • Brian Dillon is the author of The Hypochondriacs and a memoir, In the Dark Room. His novella, Sanctuary, will be published later this year. He lives in Canterbury, England, and is UK editor of Cabinet magazine.
  • Andrew Ervin’s first book, Extraordinary Renditions: 3 Novellas, will be published in fall 2010 by Coffee House Press.
  • Amelie Gillette is a staff writer for the A.V. Club, the Onion’s semiserious entertainment section, where she writes the pop culture column The Hater, as well as The Tolerability Index. A version of her essay appears in the anthology Reality Matters, out in March.
  • Noy Holland is the author of two collections of short fiction, What Begins With Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf). Her stories have appeared in the Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Open City, NOON, and others. She teaches in the MFA program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  • Scott Indrisek writes for Time Out New York, Whitewall, and Asylum.com. He almost survived the death of print media in 2009. He is still working on a novel, which is still called Awful Bliss.
  • Virginia Konchan is a writer from Cleveland. Her work has recently appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, the New Republic, Notre Dame Review, and Jacket.
  • 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.
  • Miranda F. Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press) and Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). She lives in San Francisco and is an editor at the Encyclopedia Project.
  • Jack Pendarvis has written four books.
  • Andrea Richards writes about outdated media, film history, lost lands, and forgotten philosophical systems. She is the author of two books and is at work on third, concerning occultism in the early Hollywood film community. She lives in Los Angeles.
  • Damion Searls is a writer and translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch. His most recent books include What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going (stories, Dalkey Archive Press) and an abridged edition of Thoreau’s Journal (NYRB Classics). More info and excerpts at damionsearls.com.
  • Peter Terzian is the editor of the essay anthology Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives. He writes a blog about songs called Earworms.
  • 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. The poems published in this issue (as well as those in the October and November/December 2009 issues) are from his forthcoming collection of poems, White Egrets, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in April.
  • Casey Walker is working on a dissertation in English Literature at Princeton University and finishing a novel. He votes absentee on California ballot propositions and dreams of high-speed rail.
  • Don Waters is the author of the award-winning story collection Desert Gothic. He lives in New Mexico.

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