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Tony Scherman

Tony Scherman has written many dozens of articles since the 1980s, at first largely about music, but recently branching out all across American culture. His two books are Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story (1999) and Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol (2009), with David Dalton. Scherman lives in a small Hudson River town just south of […]

Chris Estey

Chris Estey is a Seattle writer and a publicist known as Big Freak. His essay on Phil Ochs appeared in Da Capo Press’s Best Music Writing 2010; he has done comics about the Clash with David Lasky for Fantagraphics; and his PR clients have included the Black Angels, Betty Davis, and the Listen, Whitey! album.

Casey Jarman

Casey Jarman has served as an editor at the Pulitzer Prize–winning Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon, and is currently a contributing editor for The Believer. He cofounded Party Damage Records in 2013. He writes and does illustration work for various magazines and websites. He is also the author of Death: An Oral History, which features interviews […]

Maria Bamford

Maria Bamford stars in her own web sitcom on SuperDeluxe.com and in Comedy Central’s “The Comedians of Comedy Tour.” Her other appearances include Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Comedy Central Presents… Maria Bamford.

Nathan C. Martin

Nathan C. Martin is the editor of Room 220: New Orleans Book and Literary News. He is currently at work on a book about Wyoming, his home state.

Nicholas Hune-Brown

Nicholas Hune-Brown is a magazine writer who lives in Toronto. He writes for the Walrus, Toronto Life, the Globe and Mail, and other publications.

Aaron Gilbreath

Aaron Gilbreath has written for the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, Brick, Black Warrior Review, and the Oxford American. He is the author of the chapbook A Secondary Landscape, and is putting out a collection of jazz essays. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Anna Suzuki

Anna Suzuki is a comedian and actor living in New York. She tours, and hosts monthly comedy shows at the People’s Improv Theater and Pete’s Candy Store.

Arnon Grunberg

Arnon Grunberg is a novelist and reporter. Grunberg’s novel, Tirza, was published this year by Open Letter. His work has been translated to twenty-six languages.

Jamaal May

Jamaal May is the author of Hum, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. His poems appear in journals such as the New England Review, Indiana Review, Callaloo, and Ploughshares. He was named the 2011–13 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University.

Claudia Dey

Claudia Dey has written plays and the novel Stunt. She also makes dresses under the label Horses Atelier.

Henry Giardina

Henry Giardina is a writer and editor living in los angeles. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker.com, The Paris Review Daily, New York Magazine, and The Believer, among other publications. he is a 2016 macdowell fellow and a 2018 Edward f. albee fellow.

Kirsten Andersen

Kirsten Andersen’s poems have appeared in The Believer, Tin House, Alaska Quarterly Review, Canteen Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a former Wallace Stegner fellow and a recipient of a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her 2016 chapbook Family Court was published by Q Ave Press.

Jules Moore

Jules Moore is a freelance writer and the associate editor of Hobo magazine. She transports a canoe’s worth of belongings between New York, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.

Thomas Beard

Thomas Beard is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn.

Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov in 1945. His previous books include Tremor (1985), Canvas (1992), Mysticism for Beginners (1997), Without End (2002), Solidarity, Solitude (1990), Two Cities (1995), Another Beauty (2000), In Defense of Ardor (2002), and Eternal Enemies (2008). He lives in Chicago and Krakow. “Kings,” in this issue, is forthcoming from Unseen […]

Clare Cavanagh

Clare Cavanagh is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University, and has also translated the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska.

Dina Omar

Dina Omar is a Palestinian poet and a doctoral student at Yale University pursuing a Ph.D in Palestinian Studies.

Bess Lovejoy

Bess Lovejoy is an award-winning writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn. She is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses (Simon & Schuster, 2013), which has been translated into three languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Believer, Lapham’s Quarterly, […]

Nell Scovell

Scovell is a television and magazine writer, producer, director and collaborator on the #1 New York Times bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She is the creator of the televisions series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and her TV writing credits include The Simpsons, Coach, Monk, Murphy Brown, Charmed and NCIS. She […]

Linda Leseman

Linda Leseman was freelance journalist living in Brooklyn. She wrote about music (mostly metal) for the Village Voice and LA Weekly. Currently, she lives and works in Houston, TX.

Estep Nagy

Estep Nagy began writing his first novel, We Shall Not All Sleep, in 2005. It has been featured in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and many other national publications. His fiction and other writing have appeared in Southwest Review, The Believer, Paper, Box Office, and elsewhere. He wrote […]

Jerry Stahl

Jerry Stahl is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. A film adaptation followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role. Stahl has worked extensively in film and television.

Rebecca Taylor

Rebecca Taylor grew up in the Virginia woods. Now she lives and writes in New York City.

George Ducker

George Ducker lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Los Angeles magazine, the Santa Monica Review, and Hobart.

David Wain

David Wain is a New York‒based director, writer, and actor. You may know him from Stella (the megasmash Comedy Central series), Wet Hot American Summer (the cult film he directed and cowrote), or The State (the critically acclaimed MTV comedy series).

Larry Frolick

Larry Frolick is the author of three books of literary journalism, including Grand Centaur Station: Unruly Living with the New Nomads of Central Asia (2004), on the terror-theory of history. He won the 2006 Alexander Ross Award as Canada’s best new magazine journalist, and lives on a peach farm in Niagara when not on assignment.

Donald Weber

Photojournalist Donald Weber lives in Toronto and Kyiv, where his work on Ukraine’s postatomic suffering won a 2006 World Press Photo Award, honorable mention. Previously, he was an architect with Rem Koolhaas’s OMA in the Netherlands. He is represented by the Polaris Agency in New York.

Rebecca Turnbull

Rebecca Turnbull was born in Boston but now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her home often houses more bikes than people.

Scott Eden

Scott Eden is a reporter. Also, he’s a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine and the author of Touchdown Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a book of nonfiction that explores the peculiar enthusiasms and meticulous devotions of Notre Dame football fans. His story “No One Walks Off the Island” was a finalist for a 2015 […]