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Rufus Griscom,
CEO
rufusg(at)nerve.com |
Rufus co-founded Nerve.com in 1997, and was the publication's first editor. Since then, he has seen the company through many stages, including the launch of Nerve Personals, the publication of 12 Nerve-branded books with Random House, Doubleday, Penguin and Chronicle that have sold over 1 million copies, and the continued expansion of the Nerve website. In 2001 Rufus co-founded Spring Street Networks, an online dating technology company, which was sold in 2005. Today Rufus serves as CEO and Chairman of Nerve Media, which owns Nerve.com and Babble.com. Rufus graduated from Brown University in 1991. He has two sons, Declan (3) and Grey (7 months), with his wife, Alisa Volkman.
The Wow of Poo , Nerve
Beginnings , Welcome
to The Big Bang , Sexual
Healing: An Interview with Monster's Ball director Marc Foster , Sleeper:
An Interview with In the Bedroom director Todd Field , Quickies — Wild
Things , One Rack
Mind , Objectified:
The Fountain Pen , What
Light Through Yonder Inbox Breaks? The Romance of Low Bandwidth , Why
Print? , Will
the Future Be Hard? , The
Wow of Poo , Should
Kids Read Nerve? , Monica
Gives Good Gossip , Nerve
Turns One , Whelmed
2 , Whelmed , What
Are We Thinking? (Mission Statement) |
Sam Apple,
Director of Interactive Media
sam(at)nerve.com |
Sam Apple's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, and Slate.com, among many other publications. His first book, Schlepping Through the Alps, was named a finalist for the PEN America award for a first work of nonfiction. In 2005 he received the annual Faux Faulkner award. Apple's next book, American Parent, will be published in 2008. |
Megan Walton
Traffic Manager
megan(at)nerve.com |
Megan Walton
is a refugee from the world of book publishing. She enjoys pretentious books and reality television. She was raised in Brooklyn and lives there today. |
John Constantine,
Advertising and Business Assistant
johnc(at)nerve.com
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John, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself. |
Nicole Ankowski,
Office Manager
nicolea(at)nerve.com |
Nicole Ankowski is a writer, editor and occasional performance artist. Her written work has appeared in Nerve, Babble, The Daily Beast and a smattering of alt-weeklies across the country. Her vocal stylings have soothed on-hold callers at Florida dental offices, Ohio car dealerships and Jack Nicklaus golf courses. She lives in Brooklyn. |
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