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A fashionable L.A. photo editor exploring all manner of hyper-sexual
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Brandonland
A California boy in L.A. capturing beach parties, sunsets and
plenty of skin.
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Matt
Labash is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. |
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Neil Labute's films include In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession and The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play by the same title. His other plays include The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, and bash. LaBute's fiction has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Playboy. A collection of his short stories will be published by Grove Atlantic later this year. |
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Nomy
Lamm is a fat, freaky, one-legged anarchist dyke who lives in Olympia,
Washington. Her writing has been published in Ms., HUES, Seventeen
and numerous anthologies including Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About
Body Image and Identity (ed. Ophira Edut) and Restricted Access:
Lesbians on Disability (ed. Victoria Brownworth and Susan Raffo). Her
post-apocalyptic queer rock opera, The
Transfused, was performed in the summer of 2000 at Olympia's historic
Capitol. |
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Victoria
Lancelotta was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work has
appeared in the Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train and other magazines,
as well as several anthologies. She has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony
and the recipient of a Henfield Transatlantic Review Award. Her first collection
of stories is Here in the World. She lives in Nashville. |
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Alexandra
Lange is a student of twentieth-century architectural history at
New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. She is a regular contributor
to New York and Metropolis. |
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Erika
Langley received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Rhode Island School
of Design in 1989. In 1992 she moved to Seattle and became a stripper in
order to do her photo project, The
Lusty Lady: Photographs and Texts. She is still a dancer at the
Lusty. |
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Dorianne
Laux is the author of two collections of poetry, Awake and
What We Carry, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award. She is also the co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's
Companion: A Guide to the Pleasure of Writing Poetry. |
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Victor
D. LaValle was raised in Flushing and Rosedale, Queens. He has a
B.A. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He
recently published a book of short stories, Slapboxing
with Jesus, and is at work on his first novel. |
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Steve
Lavender Steve Lavender is a novelist and poet. His work has been
published in Pagitica, Anothertorontoquarterly, NFG
and Burning Effigy. He lives in Toronto, where he directs a monthly
reading series. |
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David
Dodd Lee is the author of three books of poems, including Downsides
of Fish Culture (1997) and Arrow Pointing South (forthcoming
in March, 2002). A fourth manuscript, Air Conditioned Silver, has
just been completed and will appear in 2003. |
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David
Lehman is a poet, writer, editor and man about town. He is the author
of two poetry books, The Daily Mirror (2000), a selection of the
poems he has written since embarking on the experiment of writing a poem
a day, and its sequel, The Evening Sun (2002). Lehman is the founding
editor of The
Best American Poetry series and is co-director of the Monday night
poetry reading series at the KGB Bar in New York. His most recent nonfiction
book is The
Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets. |
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Will
Leitch's "Life as a Loser" column runs weekly on TheSimon.com. He
has written for Salon, The New York Times on the Web, New York Press, Ironminds,
Playboy.com and The Sporting News. |
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J.T.
Leroy is the author of Sarah
(Bloomsbury), a novel currently being made into a film by director Gus Van
Sant. He is also writing a film for HBO, with Diane Keaton producing. LeRoy's
new book, The
Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Bloomsbury) is his second novel.
Both his books are International best sellers and have received rave reviews
from the New York Times. He contributes a monthly column to Shout
magazines. He also writes for other swell magazines and papers as well.
His website is http://www.jtleroy.com.
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Jonathan
Lethem is the author of five novels, most recently Motherless
Brooklyn. He currently lives in Brooklyn. Click here
for more of Lethem on Random House's Bold Type website. |
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Simon
LeVay is a neuroscientist-turned-science writer. As a scientist
he is best known for his 1991 report on differences in brain structure between
gay and straight men. He has written or co-authored six books: The Sexual
Brain, City of Friends, Queer Science, Albrick's Gold, The Earth in Turmoil
and Here Be Dragons. He lives in West Hollywood, California and is
reachable via his website at http://members.aol.com/slevay.
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Judith
Levine is the author of the forthcoming Not Harmful to Minors:
How We Hurt Our Children by Protecting Them from Sex and My
Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender. She has
written about sex, gender, culture and politics for many national publications
and is a founder of the National Writers Union and the pro-sex feminist
agitprop troupe, No More Nice Girls. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and
Hardwick, Vermont. |
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David
Levinthal received his M.F.A. in Photography from Yale University.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the
NEA. His book, Mein
Kampf, received France's Prix du Livres de Photographies.
He has published twelve books and catalogs; his latest is Barbie
Millicent Roberts (An Original), published in the fall of 1998.
Read more about him in Forbes.
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Heather Lewis is the author of two other novels, House Rules and Second Suspect. In 2002, she took her own life at the age of forty. |
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Marc
Levy served with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam and Cambodia
in 1970 and has traveled extensively in Central America, Southeast Asia
and Indonesia. His work has appeared in various publications including:
Slant, Peregrine, Masquerade Books, Vagabond Monthly, PoetryCentral.com,
Cleansheets, Rattapallax, Medicinal Purposes and the anthologies
Stories From the Infirmary, Will Work for Peace and The Best American
Erotica 2000. A video of his war-related prose and photographs, The
Real Deal, is being submitted to various film festivals. |
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Jardine
Libaire lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her first novel, Here Kitty
Kitty,
will be published by Little Brown in May 2004. |
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Mark
Lindquist was born and raised in Seattle. His first novel, Sad
Movies, published in 1987, was a bestseller and published in six languages.
He has also written screenplays for several studios, including Paramount,
20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and MGM; book reviews for The Los Angeles
Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review and the Seattle
Times; and articles for Details, The New York Times Magazine
and other publications. His second novel, Carnival Desires, was published
in 1990 and his third novel, Never Mind Nirvana, was published in
May 2000. |
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Sharon Lintz is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has written for the New
York Post and comedycentral.com and has produced work for public radio,
most recently a humor piece about vaginal cosmetic surgery for WBAI's
now-defunct sex show eradio. |
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Sam
Lipsyte is Senior Editor at FEED.
His fiction has been published in The Quarterly and Open City.
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Max
Ludington's fiction has appeared in Tin House and Meridian.
He received his MFA from Columbia University and now lives in New York. Tiger
in a Trance is his first novel. |
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Juliana Luecking makes CDs you can get from Kill Rock Stars. DreamCumGoDown is a collection of interviews with women about sex, and Big Broad is a bunch of intimate stories. Her latest video short Some People I Know: Truth is on Kill Rock Stars Video Fanzine #3. She lives and bikes in Brooklyn. |
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William
Outcault and Lilla LoCurto both received their M.F.A.'s in
Sculpture; their work together has been exhibited at the TZ'Art in New York
City, the Newlyn Art Gallery in the UK and the MIT List Visual Arts Center
in Cambridge, among other places. Their pieces have been reviewed in Artforum,
The Village Voice and The Boston Globe. |
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Canadian-born
photographer Richard Lohr spent most of his adult
life in London working primarily in fashion. Since an enlightening filmmaking
expedition to Tibet (which put the fashion world into a new perspective
for him), he has been able to take on more commissions in the field he calls "real photography." Lohr now lives in New York City. |
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Tom Lombardi's fiction is forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly, and has appeared in Fence, McSweeneys.net, and Opium. His website is www.tomlombardi.org. |
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Nola
Lopez photographs the "Objectified" column for the Nerve print magazine,
and has also contributed to Time, W and New York magazines,
among others. |
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Canadian-born
photographer Jack Louth is a self-taught photographer
who moved to New York City in the fall of 1994 to assist and learn. Some
of his editorial work can be viewed at Fashionbook.com.
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Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels Avoidance and The Same
Embrace, as well as short stories that have been widely anthologized, most
recently in Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and Bestial Noise: The Tin
House Fiction Reader. He lives in Boston, where he teaches writing at Boston
College and Lesley University, and he can be reached via his Web site,
www.MichaelLowenthal.com. |
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Edward
Lucie-Smith is an art critic who specializes in sexuality in art.
His books include Sexuality in Western Art, Ars Erotica, Adam, Art Today,
Movements in Art since 1945 and Flesh & Stone, which is his first
book of photography. |
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Ray
Loriga, born in 1967 in Madrid, writes novels and scripts. His published
works include Lo peor de todo, Héroes, Días extraños
and Caídos del cielo. Loriga directed La pistola de mi
hermano, which screened at the the Berlin Film Festival. His work has
been translated in the U.S., England, France, Germany, Holland, Greece,
Denmark, Finland and Portugal. |
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Max
Ludington recently completed his M.F.A. in Writing at Columbia University.
He's been published in Tin House and has been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. Max is at work on a story collection and his first novel. |
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Roddy
Lumsden was born in Scotland in 1966 and now works as a freelance
writer and puzzle compiler in London. His collections from Bloodaxe, Yeah
Yeah Yeah and The Book of Love (a Poetry Book Society Choice),
were short-listed for several awards including the Forward and T.S. Eliot
Prizes. He co-wrote The Message, a book about poetry and pop music.
His third collection Roddy Lumsden is Dead appears in Autumn 2001,
when he will also commence an Arts Council of England international fellowship
in Canada. |
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Leslie
Lyons' photography has appeared in Vibe, Time Out New York, Wavelength
and various group shows. |
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