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Houston neighbors pull back the curtains and expose each other’s lives.
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A peak of what's new and hot at Nerve.
The Modern Materialist
Almost everything you want.
The Daily Siege
An intimate and provocative look at Siege's life, work and loves.
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Autumn Sonnichsen
A fashionable L.A. photo editor exploring all manner of hyper-sexual
girls down south.
ScreenGrab
The Nerve Film Blog
Chase
The creator of Supercult.com poses his pretty posse.
The Nerve Video Blog
Deep, deep inside the world of online video.
61 Frames Per Second
Smarter gaming.
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Brandonland
A California boy in L.A. capturing beach parties, sunsets and
plenty of skin.
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Matt Haber has written for Spin, Entertainment Weekly, New York, Salon.com, and Wired. He lives in Brooklyn and writes for http://www.lowculture.com |
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Marcellus Hall is a freelance illustrator from Minnesota who lives in New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and The Atlantic Monthly among others. He also moonlights as a musician with the band White Hassle. Prior to that, Hall played with the band Railroad Jerk. To see more of his work, please visit www.marcellushall.com. |
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Actress and comedian Chelsea Handler was born in Livingston, New Jersey and has toured the country doing stand-up. Now settled in Los Angeles, she regularly performs live at the Comedy Store and Improv. She has also participated at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the Aspen Comedy Festival. Handler is the new Tonight Show correspondent and one of the stars on Oxygen’s hit comedy Girls Behaving Badly. Chelsea has guest-starred on programs such as Reno 911, Spy TV, My Wife and Kids, The Bernie Mac Show, and The Practice. She most recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Her stand-up has also been televised on VH1’s Love Lounge, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and HBO’s broadcast of the Aspen Comedy Festival. She can be seen weekly as a regular commentator on E!. For more information, please visit Chelsea Handler’s website at
www.chelsea-handler.com. |
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Aaron
Hamburger studies writing and teaches at Columbia University. He's
currently working on a book of stories about Americans having sex in Eastern
Europe titled Garage Sale. |
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James
Hannaham is a writer and actor whose work has appeared in The
Village Voice, Spin, Out and Us Magazine and is finishing a short
story collection, Ooh Chee Chee Wah Wah. A founding member of the
performance troupe Elevator Repair Service, he hopes to walk for the legendary
House of Pancakes in the category "Butch Queen in Drags Realness with FACE."
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Gerald
Hannon is an award-winning Toronto journalist. He has written for
Toronto Life, This magazine and Chatelaine. |
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Daniel
Harris is the author of The
Rise and Fall of Gay Culture, cited as a Notable Book of 1997 by
the New York Times Book Review. His essays have appeared regularly in Harper's,
Salmagundi and The Nation. His next book, Cute,
Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, was
published in April 2001. |
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Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel Miss
Media.
She is also co-creator of the award-winning
website BreakupGirl.net and
the "Dating Dictionary" columnist for Glamour. She writes about gender, culture, and media new and old for
Salon, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and many
others. When she wrote about bodybuilding for Slate, someone on the message
boards
called her a "powerlifting cunt." |
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John Haskell is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock(FSG, 2003). His work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Believer, and Ploughshares. He is a contributor to the radio show The Next Big Thing. He lives in Brooklyn. |
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A printmaker turned photographer, Naomi Harris was born in Toronto, Canada. Two years ago, she relocated from New York to Miami, where she just received an Agfa grant to photograph the retirees of the Haddon Hall Hotel. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, among others. |
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John
Hawkes wrote sixteen books of fiction, including Sweet
William, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, The
Blood Oranges (soon to be a motion picture) and, most recently,
The
Frog. He was T.B. Stowell University Professor Emeritus, Brown University
and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At seventy-two,
Hawkes died from a stroke on May 15, 1998. |
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Amari
Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1963. In addition to publishing several
books of poetry, among them Mars Angels, The Second-to-Last-Kiss
and Short Cut, she has written two books of essays, including The
End of the Century Is a Mademoiselle. She also writes criticism about
alternative theater and has written a theater guide. |
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Daniel
Hayes has published stories in various magazines, including TriQuarterly,
Massachusetts Review, Story, Glimmer Train and The Los Angeles Times
Magazine. One of his stories was included in Pushcart Prize XV.
He now lives in San Francisco, though he prefers Los Angeles, where he used
to live. |
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Eloise
Klein Healy is the author of four books of poetry, a chapbook, and
two audiotape/CD collections. Her most recent book, Artemis In Echo Park,
was nominated for the Lambda Book Award. She is the chair of the M.F.A.
in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles and Associate
Editor/Poetry Editor of The Lesbian Review of Books. |
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Andrew
Hearst is a writer and editor who lives in New York. His writing
has appeared in The New York Times, Lingua Franca, The Village Voice,
Newsday and the London Independent, among other publications.
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Jamey
Hecht is a writer and painter living in Brooklyn. He is the author
of Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament, and the forthcoming
Wordsworth Edition of Sophocles' Three Theban Plays. His fiction
and essays have appeared in Sycamore Review, Massachussets Review, American
Book Review, 16th Century Journal, English Literary History, Cloverdale
Review and other venues. He can be contacted at http://www.geocities.com/gohexametergo/JameyHecht1.html.
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Jennifer
Michael Hecht is a Professor in the History of Science at Nassau
Community College. Her poetry appears in Poetry, The Partisan Review,
The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Salmagundi and other journals,
and has been included in The Best American Poetry 1999. |
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Virginia
Heffernan is an editor at Talk magazine and a Ph.D. candidate
at Harvard. |
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Scott
Heim is the author of the novels Mysterious
Skin and In
Awe, as well as a book of poems, Saved
From Drowning. He served as the London Arts Board's 1998 International
Writer-in-Residence, and has taught classes there, in New York and in his
native Kansas. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, where he is finishing a third
novel, We Disappear. |
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Mark
Helfrich began taking photographs as a young boy. He attended
the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he continued to snap
photographs and study film. His hobby quickly turned into his passion
and led to the publication of his first photographic book, Naked
Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. |
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Richard Hell got married last year. The photo was taken at his wedding.
He's the author of three or four CD's, the most recent being a double
disk package of odds and ends from the seventies and early eighties
called Time (Matador, 2002), and three or four books, the most recent
being Hot and Cold (powerHouse, 2001). He's nearly completed his
second novel; his first, Go Now, was published by Scribner in 1996. |
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Vicki
Hendricks is the author of Miami
Purity, a Florida noir novel she describes as "sex, sex, sex, murder
and sex — in the dry cleaners," which was originally her thesis for
her creative writing Master's. She currently has a short story out entitled
"Penile Infraction" in the anthology Dick
for a Day and a chapter in the Florida crime collaboration, Naked
Came the Manatee. "West End" is forthcoming in the next Otto Penzler
mystery collection, Murder
for Revenge, and she has just completed Iguana Love, a novel
of "obsession, perversion and murder." Hendricks lives in Hollywood, Florida,
and teaches at Broward Community College.
Photo
Credit © Peggy Levison Nolan |
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Brian
Henry grew up in Virginia and has lived in Australia, Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire since reaching the legal drinking age. He is the editor
of Verse. He
has published poetry and criticism in 150 magazines around the world, including
the Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, American
Poetry Review, New American Writing, The Kenyon Review, Southerly, Threepenny
Review and several anthologies. His first book of poetry, Astronaut,
was published recently in England and is forthcoming in Slovenia in translation.
Astronaut wants to come to the U.S., too. |
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DeWitt
Henry was the founding editor of Ploughshares literary magazine.
He has co-edited (with James A. McPherson) Fathering
Daughters: Reflections by Men, released on Father's Day, 1998. His
fiction and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Review,
American Voice and The Nebraska Review, among others. He teaches
at Emerson College. |
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Mike Heppner's The Egg Code was cited by the Washington Post,
the Philadelphia City Paper and Publishers Weekly as among
their best books of 2002 . He grew up in Grosse Pointe and Rhode Island, and
currently lives in Watertown, MA. Pike's Folly is his second novel. |
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Sarah Hepola is a freelance writer living in New York City. |
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James
Herbert is a professor of art at the University of Georgia, Athens.
He has been making films for over thirty years and has created twelve music
videos for R.E.M. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern Art in New York. Stills
is a collection of his photographs. |
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Laura
Herbert is a freelance writer, photographer, web producer, stunt
driver and aspiring mudflap girl. A connoisseur of vintage pin-up art and
artifacts, she has appeared in BUST, The New York Observer, Penthouse
and other publications. |
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Jason
Hernandez-Rosenblatt has written for film, TV and comic books, but
he likes interviewing porn starlets the best. |
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Sheila Heti's first book, The Middle
Stories, has been translated into German, Spanish, French and Dutch.
She lives in Toronto, where she runs the lecture series Trampoline Hall.
She is working on a musical with Dan Bejar of the band Destroyer. |
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Heywood is a competitive powerlifter, ranked 11th in the bench press
nationally in her weight class. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University
of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Critical Theory from the University of California,
Irvine. She is an associate professor of English at SUNY-Binghamton, and
is the author of Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete's Story, Bodymakers:
A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Bodybuilding, Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic
Aesthetic in Modern Culture and Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist,
Doing Feminism. Along with Geena Davis, she was recently elected to
the position of Trustee at the Women's Sports Foundation. |
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Philip
Higgs is a writer living, somewhat uncharacteristically for him,
outside of New York. He will one day write a novel, but not anytime
soon. |
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Logan Hill is a Contributing Writer and film editor at New York Magazine. He is also the "Required Reading" columnist for the New York Post and has contributed to Wired, The Nation, and The Village Voice. |
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Brenda
Hillman is the author of five books of poetry: White Dress, Fortress,
Death Tractates, Bright Existence and Loose Sugar. Her work has
appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. She teaches at Saint Mary's
College in Moraga, California. |
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Born in
Fukuoka, Japan, in 1960, Noritoshi Hirakawa
studied sociology at the University of Tokyo. He has gained international
recognition with his exhibitions in Zurich, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam,
Tokyo and New York. He lives and works in New York City. |
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Tony
Hoagland has published poems widely, including two full length,
prize-winning collections, Donkey Gospel (l998) and Sweet Ruin
(1992). For a while, Ani Difranco, bless her soul, was reading poems from
Donkey Gospel at her concerts. He often writes about gender, and
the unspeakable complexity of being a man caught between a paradigm shift
and a hard-on. He currently is on a fellowship in Washington, D.C.; in Fall
2001, he starts teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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Mara
Hoffman is a fashion designer whose clothing line, Circle, has been
featured in Details, Vibe, Black Book and Bikini. |
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A.
M. Homes is the author of the short story collections The
Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know, and the novels in
a Country of Mothers, Jack,
The
End of Alice and Music
for Torching. Her fiction has been translated into eight languages,
and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment
for the Arts Fellowship. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vanity Fair,
The New York Times Magazine, Mirabella and Artforum. |
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Cathy Hong writes for The Village Voice and moonlights as a poet. Her book Translating
Mo'um was released last year. |
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Melanie
Hope is a poet. She began writing in secret little books that she
kept as a child and later pursued it seriously as an undergraduate at Oberlin
College. She continued her studies in creative writing on a graduate level
at New York University. Her writing has appeared in The Caribbean Writer,
Sinister Wisdom, Essence, The Key to Everything, The Arc of Love and
Afrekete. She lives in New York City and plans to continue writing
for as long as she can. |
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Evans
D. Hopkins has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post
and Slate, among other publications. He is currently at work on a
prison memoir, as well as other fiction and film projects. |
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Abeer Hoque is the winner of the 2005 Tanenbaum Award for nonfiction and the
2006-7 Fulbright Scholarship. Her stories, poems and photographs have been
published in ZYZZYVA, 580 Split, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Switchback,
Bullfight Review, The Daily Star, Prose Ax, and Drunken Boat. She
was born in Nigeria and lives in Barcelona. Her work can be found at
www.olivewitch.com. |
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Horst
P. Horst, born in Germany in 1906, became one of the world's most
influential fashion photographers. Putting his stamp on Vogue in
the 1930s and 1940s, he soon became known for his extravagant fashion plates,
but also for his still lifes and nudes. Horst died in 1999. |
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Andy Horwitz is a writer and performer living in New York City. His monologues have been called everything from "high-octane, raucous comedy" to "inquisitive and insightful." His writing has appeared in Heeb, The Seattle Stranger and various anthologies. He edits the alternative performance blog Culturebot.org and in 2005 ran for Mayor of New York City, a performance project documented online at andyformayor.org. |
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Pam
Houston is the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Waltzing the
Cat and A Little More About Me. She lives at nine thousand feet
in the Colorado Rockies near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Her stories
have run in many anthologies, mostly recently in The Best American Short
Stories of the Century. She is both pleased and embarrassed that in
her first story for Nerve, her characters had to get to know each other
for four thousand words before they could get into bed.
(Photo
by John Gary Brown) |
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Jennifer
Howard is finishing a novel, Athena's Tears, and has published
short fiction in the Virginia Quarterly Review and the Blue
Moon Review. She is a contributing editor at The Washington Post,
where she writes a weekly column for Book World, the paper's Sunday
book section. |
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Jennifer
Howze is a New York-based freelance writer whose work has appeared
in Travel and Leisure, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Allure
and Self, among other publications. She has not won any writing awards
but is looking into the matter. |
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Jessica
Hundley is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is
also publisher of the zine Mommy and I Are One. |
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David Hunt writes for art/text, Flash Art, Index, Art Byte and other publications. |
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Mara Hvistendahl has been published in the Village Voice, the
Philadelphia Independent and the Arizona Republic. She lives
in Shanghai. |
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