Contributors Williams Rossa Cole, unwilling to prostitute himself, is cutrently seeking employment with a major media network. Joanna Coles is a correspondent for the Guardian in London. Jesse Eisinger is a reporter for Quick Nikkei News, a financial newswire in New York. Jennifer Gonnerman writes on city politics for the Village Voice, the New York Observer, Ms. magazine, and other publications. James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. The author of many books, his latest novel, How Late It Was, How Late, won the Booker Prize this year. Some Recent Attacks, a collection of political essays, is available in the US from AK. Along with Naomi Yang, Damon Krukowski runs Exact Change Press in Boston and plays in Magic Hour, whose new record is out on Twisted Village. Jennifer Moxley lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she edits The Impercipient, an independent poetry magazine. Charles Simic's most recent book is Hotel Insomnia. Rod Smith has two books forthcoming, The Boy Poems (Buck Downs Books) and In Memory ofMy Theories (0 Books). He also edits the journal Aerial Tom Vanderbilt, a writer and cultural critic, was luted into The Baffler's New York offices by promises of cheap gin and a Park Avenue pied-a.-terre. Margaret Young is finishing a book ofessays called Fringe Kitchens. Recently she won a box of fishing lures in a raffle. Robust Matt Weiland just ordered you a pint of eighty shilling from down the bar. - )
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