CONTRIBUTORS

Roy Blount, Jr., is the author of One Fell Soup, Crackers, and About Three Bricks Shy of a Load.

Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written the original screenplays for many films, including Singin’ in the Rain and The Band Wagon. They have written the book and lyrics for such Broadway shows as On the Town, Bells Are Ringing, On the Twentieth Century, and A Doll’s Life.

Gary Giddins is the author of Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz & American Pop. His articles have appeared in the Village Voice, Esquire, and The Atlantic.

Thomas McGuane’s novels include Nobody's Angel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, and The Sporting Club. He is also the author of An Outside Chance: Essays on Sport.

Milo Miles is the music editor of the Boston Phoenix.

Howard Moss is the author of Whatever Is Moving, a book of critical essays. Rules of Sleep, his eleventh hook of poems, will he published by Atheneum in November. He is poetry editor of The New Yorker.

Tim Page is a music critic for the New York Times and host of a daily radio program on WNYC. He is compiling an anthology of Glenn Gould’s critical writings.

Walker Percy is the author of The Moviegoer, which won a National Book Award, The Last Gentleman, and other hooks. “The Promiscuous Self” is from his new book, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June.

Edward W. Said’s books include Orientalism, Beginnings: Intention and Method, and The World, the Text, and the Critic, recently published by Harvard University Press. He is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

James Sanders is a principal of Sanders, Strickland Associates and practices architectural design in New York City. In 1980 he was a design arts fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Luc Sante’s work has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Bomb.

Stephen Schiff has written about movies for the Boston Phoenix and is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

Peter Schjeldahl is the author of The Brute and four other collections of poems. His art criticism has appeared in Art in America, the Village Voice, and the New York Times.

Jonathan Spence’s books include The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 and The Death of Woman Wang. He is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University.

Roy Strickland is a principal of Sanders, Strickland Associates and practices architectural design in New York City. He is a former associate editor of The Harvard Architecture Review.

Diana Trilling is the author of Claremont Essays, We Must March My Darlings, and Mrs. Harris. “Bobolinka’s Neighbor” is the first chapter of an as yet untitled childhood memoir to be published next year by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.