Chris Adrian is a pediatrician and divinity student in Boston. His second novel, The Children's Hospital, was published by McSweeney's in 2006.
Woody Allen’s prolific career as a comic, writer, and filmmaker spans more than five decades. He writes frequently for the New Yorker and is the author of Without Feathers, Getting Even, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy.
Rachel Cusk is the author of six novels, including most recently Arlington Park, and one nonfiction book. She is a winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2003 she was among Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in England.
Bruce Jay Friedman is a novelist (Stern, A Mother's Kisses), playwright (Steambath, Scuba Duba), and occasional screenwriter (Stir Crazy, Splash). His most recent book is the erotic memoir Sexual Pensées.
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir. She holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the story collection If the Sky Falls and the novel A Fine Place. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he teaches at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Will Oldham is a writer and performer. He has released
Palace Music and Bonnie "Prince" Billy music. The most recent Bonny record is The Letting Go. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and lives near there as of this printing.
William Preston is the winner of the 2006 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest. His story appears here as an online supplement to the Spring 2007 issue.
Helen Simpson is the author of four story collections—Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Dear George, Getting a Life, and In the Driver’s Seat—and a recipient of the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “Channel 17” will be included in her fifth story collection, In-Flight Entertainment, to be published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape in May, and in the United States in 2011.
Guest Designer: Will Oldham is a writer and performer. He has released
Palace Music and Bonnie "Prince" Billy music. The most recent Bonny record is The Letting Go. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and lives near there as of this printing.
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