Contributors

Calvin Bedient's first book of poems, Candy Neklace, was published in 1997. He is Professor of English at UCLA.

Clair Brown is Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley where she directs the Center for Work, Technology, and Society.

Jordan Davis is the author of Poem on a Train, co-editor of The Hat, and co-host of the Poetry City reading series. He lives in New York and Woods Hole, Mass.

Jamey Dunham is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boulevard and The Iowa Review.

Pamela Erens's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Chicago Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a 1998 fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts.

Robert H. Frank is Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of Luxury Fever.

Diego Gambetta is a sociologist and fellow at All-Souls College, Oxford University.

Jack Gibbons, former science advisor for President Clinton, teaches at MIT.

Karri Harrison is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Cafe Review and Third Coast.

Brian Henry's criticism has appeared recently in the TLS, The Threepenny Review, The Antioch Review, Chicago Review, and other magazines. He is an editor of Verse.

Douglas B. Holt is Assistant Professor of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Michèle Lamont is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Her most recent book is The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries.

Elizabeth Macklin, author of A Woman Kneeling in the Big City, is the recipient of the 1998-99 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt are economists at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., and co-authors of The State of Working America, 1998-99.

Virág Molnár is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.

Steven Monte teaches in the Humanities Core at the University of Chicago. His study of French and American prose poetry will appear next year.

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky, a graduate of Yale Law School, is Robert L. Bernstein Fellow in International Human Rights.

Thomas O'Grady is Director of Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. His first book of poems, What Really Matters, will be published next year.

Scott Saul teaches jazz and American cultural history at Yale. He is writing a book called How Deep is Our Freedom?: Hard Bop and the Movement of African-American Modernism.

Juliet Schor teaches at Harvard University and is author, most recently, of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need.

David Shapiro is a poet and art critic. His most recent books include House (Blown Apart) and After a Lost Original.

Neil Shister, former correspondent with Time, is writing a book titled Tom and Tom: The Nantucket Juice Guys and the Re-Casting of the American Dream.

Alan A. Stone is the Toureff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School.

Emma Straub is the winner of last year's Claudia Ann Seaman Award, a national poetry competition for high-school students. Her work is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary.

Jesper Svenbro is a Swedish poet, translator, critic, and classics scholar. He has lived in Paris since 1977 and is a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

G. M. Tamás is a philosopher, a dissident, and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament. He is E. L. Wiegand Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University.

Betsy Taylor is Executive Director of the Center for a New American Dream, http://www.newdream.org.

Craig Thompson is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

James B. Twitchell, professor of English at the University of Florida, is the author, most recently, of Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism.