Ray Lester
Fitzsimmons
grew up in the Manhattan of the 1980s, as his Ohio-born father was making a killing in real estate and trying to move up into the city’s high society. His French mother taught art at Hunter College, before dying of cancer when he was 8. [more]…
Richard
Dasenbrock
is from a conservative, Cincinnati Lutheran family, his father and German-speaking great-grandfather were theologically trained ministers. A heavy-set midwesterner, from an early age Dasenbrock affected a refined, superior attitude, quietly [more]…
Thomas “Tom”
Brannigan
is a fifty-something Bostonian, solidly lower-middle class, erudite and a pretty right-wing Irish Catholic. He once went to Jesuit college and then wrote a master’s thesis on Charles Maurras at Yale Divinity. An admirer of Aquinas, C.K. Chesterton [more]
L. Pinsky
was born in 1981 in New York City. A graduate of Hunter College High School, he studied history and social thought at the University of Chicago, where he earned both a bachelor’s degree and doctorate. For some years a writer at various left-wing publications, he now lives and teaches in Berlin. (’Pinsky’ has requested that his identity not be disclosed.)
JANOS ROSS
Born in 1949 in Budapest, Janos Ross was brought up in Vancouver, BC, where he studied mathematics and computer science. Since 1974 he has worked as a technology consultant to the major Hollywood studios. He is now semi-retired and lives in Varna, on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, and Pasadena.
Clarence Blaine DENNING
Clarence Baine Denning grew up in inner city Detroit, one of five brothers with a father who worked the auto line after time in the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. His literary career began with him writing on college basketball for a local newspaper. [more]…
CARMEN PARMENSE
is an ex-cadre of a sectarian Trotskyist groupuscule who burned out on the so-called “unalienated labor” of organizing and found a renewed lease on intellectual life through film and short fiction. After quitting the party, he tried [more]…
ODETTE
WONG
Odette Wong grew up in the placid, ethnic suburbs of Los Angeles. The radical boredom one reads about drives some young Angelinos to nihilism but a handful towards cold blooded satire. [more]…
CHARLES ROBILLARD
is an eighty-something retired academic Orientalist of purported French descent. Family background and academic background unknown. Made his way around Europe with a slight American accent, for which he was mocked publicly by [more]…
Carl Weaver
Carl Weaver came up in Miami’s concrete sprawl, raised by a Viennese mother who painted in a cramped, solitary flat. His boyhood friends were petty criminals, their schemes a crude education. [more]…
David Lau
David Lau is from 1990s Long Beach in a spiritual or historical sense; he lived through LA riots and saw the outskirts of drugs and gangs in high school, before a undergrad years at UCLA in English, where he worked with Stephen Yenser and Cal Bedient.
Max Hooper-Schneider