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Rose & Olive
Houston neighbors pull back the curtains and expose each other’s lives.
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Your daily cup of WTF?
The Nerve Insider
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.
The Nerve Blog-a-log
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 Remote Island
Nerve's TV blog.
61 Frames Per Second
Smarter gaming.
ScreenGrab
The Nerve Film Blog
Brandonland
A California boy in L.A. capturing beach parties, sunsets and
plenty of skin.
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J.B. Rabin lives in Oregon where she writes
lying down in her cowboy pajamas. |
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T. Cole Rachel, an Oklahoma native, lives in New York City. His first volume of poetry, Surviving the Moment of Impact was published recently by Soft Skull Press. |
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Fabrizio
Rainone is an Italian-born fashion photographer with a degree in
filmmaking. His photographs have appeared internationally in Vogue, Harper's
Bazaar, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, among others. |
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Amudha
Rajendran is a South Indian writer of prose and poetry. She lives
in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. from NYU, where she studied with Philip
Levine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Western Humanities
Review, Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Lit, FEED and elsewhere.
She is currently working on a book of poems. |
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D.R.
Rajneesh is the occasional nom de plume of a freelance journalist. |
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Katherine
Ramsland has written numerous books, articles and short stories.
After publishing two books on psychology, Engaging
the Immediate and The
Art of Learning, she wrote Prism
of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice, The
Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles,
The Anne Rice Reader and Dean
Koontz: A Writer's Biography. She has also written for The New
York Times Book Review, The Writer, The Horror Show and Publishers
Weekly. She has been a professor at Rutgers University and a therapist.
She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. |
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John
Rawlings (1912 - 1970) was one of the most prolific photographers
of the twentieth century, with more than 200 Vogue and Glamour
covers to his credit as well as an extensive roster of commercial ad campaigns.
He began his career as an assistant to Horst P. Horst and George Platt Lynes, both of whom were great influences on Rawlings'
work. |
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Ray,
Jr. is a pop-culture dilettante who writes short fiction and criticism,
usually involving his two most compelling interests — film and sex. |
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Karyn
Raz was born in Los Angeles to an Uruguayan-Israeli urologist and
his sculptress wife. While studying Art-Semiotics at Brown she made the
video Food Chain, which screened at the 1998 Bell Gallery Annual
Juried Exhibit. Her short film braided was selected for the 1997
Brown/RISD Jewish Film Festival. Scumsucker was first screened at
the Millenium Film Workshop's Invisible Film Festival in the East Village
in July 2000. Since its conception, Raz has worked in production and as
a script supervisor, and is currently writing a feature-length screenplay. |
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Victoria
Redel is the author of Loverboy,
Where
the Road Bottoms Out and a collection of poems, Already
the World. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the M.F.A.
program in writing at Vermont College. She lives in New York City. |
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Louise
Redd received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where she
studied with John Barth, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University
of Houston. Her first novel, Playing
the Bones, was published in 1996 and released in paperback in 1997.
Redd's second novel, Hangover
Soup, was published in August of 2000. |
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Jessica Reed is a writer and photographer whose work
has appeared in nerve.com and Time Out New York
Guides, among other publications. She is currently
working on a novel. |
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Andreas
Rentsch was born in Freiburg, Switzerland. His photographs have
been featured in many journals including Aperture, Photo Metro, Viewfinder
and Fotophile. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums
around the world. |
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Nelly Reifler is the author of See Through (Simon & Schuster), a collection of stories. Her work has been published in journals and magazines in the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, and Japan. She received a Henfield Prize for her fiction and a Rotunda Gallery Visiting Curator grant to mount an exhibition based on her writing. |
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Dan
Reines is a nice Jewish boy living in Los Angeles. His writing on
all manner of pop-culture fluff has appeared in Hermenaut, Smug.com
and New Times LA, among others. |
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Paisley
Rekdal is the author of the memoir, The Night My Mother Met Bruce
Lee and a book of poetry entitled A Crash of Rhinos. She lives
in Laramie, Wyoming. |
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Laura
Resnick has won the John W. Campbell Award (Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy
Writer), the online UTC Award for Best Travel Book of 1997 (for her memoir
A
Blond in Africa) and both the Best New Series Writer and Best Silhouette
Desire awards for her romance novels (written under the pseudonym Laura
Leone). |
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Bettina
Rheims has exhibited her work at major museums and galleries in
Paris, New York, Boston, Tokyo, Berlin, Munich, London and Milan. Among
her numerous books are Female Trouble, Modern
Lovers, Les Espionnes, Animal and INRI,
and her work has been published widely in magazines such as Vogue, Paris
Match and Details. In 1994, she won the Grand Prix de la Photographie
de la Ville de Paris. |
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Martha
Rhodes is the author of At the Gate, a poetry collection
published by Provincetown Arts Press. She is a founding editor of Four Way
Books and director of the CCS Reading Series in New York City. |
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After
spending a year writing Manifesta:
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future with Jennifer Baumgardner,
Amy Richards has serious worries that she and Jennifer are becoming
the same person — minus an eight-inch height difference. To make matters
worse, after reading I'm Wild Again, Amy has even joined Jennifer
as a Helen Gurley Brown junkie, and discovered that her own online advice
column Ask Amy seems to
have been indirectly inspired by Brown's instinct toward offering advice. |
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Peter
Richards was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1967 and is the author
of Oubliette (Verse
Press). His honors include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, The John Logan Award,
an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Massachusetts Cultural Council
Artist Grant in Poetry. His poems have appeared or are appearing in The
Denver Quarterly, Fence, Ploughshares and other journals. He teaches
at Tufts University and lives in Somerville, MA. |
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Terry
Richardson was born in New York City in the middle of the swinging
'60s. After an epiphany in Tompkins Square Park in the early '80s, he tossed
aside his rock 'n roll dreams and began his photo documentation of the East
Village underground scene. Since then, his fashion photographs and celebrity
portraits have appeared in W, Harper's Bazaar, British Vogue, Spin, The
Face and Allure, among many others. |
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Stacey
Richter is the author of the collection My
Date With Satan. Her stories have been widely anthologized and have
won many prizes, including three Pushcart prizes and the National Magazine
Award. |
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Keith Ridgway was born in Dublin. His first novel, The Long Falling,
was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Standard Time,
from which "Sick as a Dog, Sad as an Angel" was taken, will be published by
St. Martin's Press in Winter 2005. |
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James
Ridgeway is Washington correspondent for The Village Voice.
He has authored fifteen books, including, most recently, The
Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis and Blood
in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations Nazi Skinheads and the Rise
of a New White Culture. His writing has appeared in Harper's,
The New Republic, The Nation, The Economist, Ramparts, The New York Times
Magazine, Details and Parade, among others worldwide. In 1996,
he and photographer Sylvia Plachy came out with the book, Red
Light: Inside the Sex Industry, excerpted here in Nerve. |
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Jennifer
Robbins is an unapologetic sensualist and a photographer who has
contributed to Detour, Maxim, Vibe, Amica, Self, Sky, Us and Glamour. |
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Isabella
Robertson grew up on a farm in the snowy hinterlands of Canada. She
received a B.A. from McGill University before giving up free healthcare
and cheap rent to live in NYC. |
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Dwayne
Rodgers is the recipient of a NJSCA grant for his unpublished novel
Genius of the Sea. But lately he has concentrated on photography
with a special emphasis on reportage. His work has been featured in a number
of solo and group shows, most recently "Black Photographers of the Twentieth
Century" at the Schomburg Cultural Institute in Harlem. In 2000 he was in
South Africa working on his first book project about life after Apartheid. |
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Abraham
Rodriguez's first collection of stories, The
Boy Without A Flag: Tales of the South Bronx, was published in 1992
and was named to The New York Times Notable Books of 1993 list. His first
novel, Spidertown,
was published in 1993 and was a 1995 American Book Award winner and a finalist
for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for 1993. His second novel, The
Buddha Book, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2002. |
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Adam
Rogers is a reporter for Newsweek magazine, where he covers
science, technology and medicine. He has also written about science fiction,
animation, comic books and various other topics on the geek beat. |
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Matthew
Ros is a filmmaker and the managing editor of Filmmaker
Magazine. |
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Bruce
Holland Rogers lives in Eugene, Oregon, where tie-dye wars with
black attire for the city's soul. He and his wife, Holly Arrow, live near
the Willamette River with their three-legged cat, Osha. His fiction has
appeared in The North American Review, The Quarterly, The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and a wide
variety of anthologies. He is also the author of two novels: Flaming
Arrows and Wind
Over Heaven: And Other Dark Tales. |
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Matthew
Rohrer grew up in Oklahoma and attended college at the University
of Michigan, the University College Dublin and received his M.F.A. from
The Iowa Writers Workshop. His first book, A
Hummock in the Malookas, was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994
National Poetry Series. His poems have been widely published in journals
and anthologies, as have his translations of Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun's
poetry. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn and is a poetry editor for the new
literary journal, Fence. "Gliding Toward the Lamps" appeared in The
New Young American Poets, Southern Illinois University Press, in March
2000. |
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Martin
Roper is a recipient of a Fulbright grant and currently runs the
International Writing Program's summer semester in Dublin, where he lives
and writes. This piece is part of a just-completed novel, The Unraveling.
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Liz
Rosenberg is the author of two books of poems, The Fire Music
and Children
of Paradise. She's also published a novel and numerous books and
anthologies for young readers. She teaches English and Creative Writing
at SUNY Binghamton, where she lives with her husband, son and two dogs. |
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Hillary
Rosner has written for New York, Wired, The Village Voice
and others. |
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Alison M. Rosen is a New York based writer whose work has appeared in OC
Weekly, Rolling Stone, Spin, Village Voice, People, Seventeen and the
Los Angeles Times, among others. She graduated from Pomona College
and appreciates jokes that begin with "What is the difference between?" She's currently at work on her first book. |
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Rodney Rothman is a former head writer for the Late Show with David Letterman. His work has appeared in the The New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's. He lives in Los Angeles. |
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Photographer Jeffrey
Rothstein focuses on different elements within nature
for his subject matter, ranging from flowers and plants to desert sands as
well as the ocean and erotica. He has shown extensively in the U.S and
Europe. He has a number of private collectors and is currently working on a
book of his work. |
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Mark
Rozzo lives in Brooklyn and is a contributing writer for The Los
Angeles Times Book Review. His work also appears frequently in The
New Yorker, The Oxford American and Elle. |
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Douglas
Rushkoff is an author, social theorist, journalist and software
developer. His books include Ecstasy
Club, Cyberia,
Media
Virus, Children
of Chaos (Playing the Future),
The GenX Reader, Stoned
Free and Coercion:
Why We Listen to What 'They' Say. Rushkoff also writes a fortnightly
column about technology and culture for The Guardian of London and
The Age, and has written for Paper, Time Digital, Esquire
and other magazines. Rushkoff lectures on technology and culture and teaches
regularly at the Esalen Institute. |
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Thaddeus
Rutkowski's work has appeared in numerous publications, including
Artful Dodge, Columbia Review, Cut Bank, Global City Review, The Laurel
Review and The New York Times. He is a winner of the Poetry Slam
at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. His novel, Roughhouse,
was published in 1999. He lives in New York. |
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Tony
Ryan's Tony Ryan lives and works in Tasmania, where he was born.
He has exhibited his work in Australia and the United States, published
a book of his work entitled Beuty/Reality and is a regular contributor
to the Norwegian magazine Cupido. |
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