Contributors

Ann Beattie’s novels are Chilly Scenes of Winter and Falling in Place, and her most recent collection of short stories is The Burning House.

Paul Berman’s political and cultural essays in the Village Voice have been denounced in publications ranging from Commentary to The Nation. His most recent book is Make-Believe Empire, “a guide to Bonapartism for children,” and he is at work on a book about American literary radicalism.

Luis Bunuel, the fundador of surrealist cinema, died on July 29. His brilliant revolutionary films include Un Chien andalou and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. His autobiography, My Last Sigh, translated by Abigail Israel, will be out this month.

Dick Cavett—actor, talk-show host, and television personality—once told Marshall McLuhan that “television deadens something in me.” His book of persona) essays and recollections, Eye on Cavett, will be appearing this month.

Glenn Collins writes on families, children, and behavior for the New York Times. His book, How to Be a Guilty Parent, was published this summer.

Peter Conrad lectures at Oxford and will be teaching at Williams College, Massachusetts, next year. He is the author of Imagining America, and his new book on New York, The Art of the City, will be out next spring.

Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant and How to Become a Virgin, has recently been spotted onstage in New York with his one-man show, An Evening with... Quentin Crisp.

Robert Fitzgerald’s verse translations of the I Had and the Odyssey have won him much praise and many prizes. He is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a profiessor emeritus at Harvard University, and he believes in the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. His translation of the Aeneid, long awaited, appears this month.

Carlos Fuentes was Mexico’s ambassador to France from 1974 to 1977. Next year, his new novel, Christopher Unborn, will be published in Mexico, and a book on Latin American-U.S. relations will be published in the U.S.

Gary Giddins, author of Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop, claims he can play blues piano in the key of C.

Clement Greenberg is the author of Art and Culture, Matisse, and many other books. He has recently returned from China, and has traveled “everywhere in the world except Persia, North Africa, and the two poles.”

Patrick Kinmonth is a painter and writer who lives in London.

Judith Martin pens the Miss Manners syndicated column and has written Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. She has also produced a novel, Gilbert: A Comedy of Manners, and accumulated a C average at Wellesley College.

Bobbie Ann Mason’s Shiloh and Other Stories won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award this year. She lives in Pennsylvania, where she is at work on her first novel.

Arthur Miller’s plays include Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and After the Fall. He is also the author of numerous essays and short stories. In Russia (1969) combined his prose text with photographs taken by his wife, Inge Morath; and the Millers are cunently collaborating on a book about Death of a Salesman in China.

Barbara Rose, consulting curator for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, is the author of American Art Since 1900 and other books about contemporary art. She is writing a dual biography of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasnec

Philip Roth’s The Anatomy Lesson, out in November, will be his fourteenth published book and completes the fictional trilogy that includes The Ghost Writer and Zuckerman Unbound. The author of Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus lives in Europe and New England, and is also the general editor of the “Writers from the Other Europe” series published by Penguin.

Gregory Sandow is a composer and music critic. His works include an opera based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Stephen Schift pianist, songwriter, and film critic, is at work on a book about “the tyranny of the image.”

Peter Schjeldahl is a poet and essayist. His art criticism has appeared in many publications.

John Simon has “not been able to stop Liza Minnelli,” but has managed to stop many readers in their tracks as drama critic for New York magazine, culture critic for The New Leader, and film critic for the National Review. His books include Paradigms Lost, Reverse Angle, and the recent Something to Declare.

Susan Sontag, cultural philosopher and critic, fiction writer and filmmaker, is currently at work on her third novel. Her books include Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, and I, etcetera.

Carol Squiers has curated contemporary photography shows in Vienna and Milan and at P.S.l in New York. Her criticism has appeared in the Village Voice and Artforum.

Michael M. Thomas, who has “abandoned the fast track of investment banking and social climbing for the craft of fiction,” is the author of Green Monday and Someone Else's Money, and is at work on his third novel, Our Sort of People, to be published next year