Contributors to SALON Alexander Cockburn is a syndicated columnist whose work regularly appears in the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers. He writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation. His most recent book is "The Golden Age Is In Us" (Verso). His next book, "Washington Babylon," is due out in May 1996.
Don Cushman is the publisher of Cloud Marauder Press and author of "Visitation", a novel recently published by Wyatt Books at St. Martin's Press.
Sam Hurwitt is a Berkeley freelance writer who has published stories in the East Bay Express, the San Francisco Examiner and the Budapest Sun. His fiction appears in the book "Voices of the Xiled." He is light and airy with delicate fruit flavors and goes well with pasta and veal. Hurwitt can be reached at nigel.blackthorn@sfnet.com.
Language expert Richard Lederer's latest book is "The Write Way: A Guide to Real-life Writing." He is also the author of such best-selling books as "Anguished English," "Crazy English," "The Miracle of Language" and "Literary Trivia." Richard comments on language for National Public Radio and other radio stations and is the Grammar Grappler for Writer's Digest. In his spare time, Richard makes approximately 200 speaking appearances a year, addressing fundraisers, corporations, academic groups and library associations. He can be reached at rlederer@tiac.net.
Howard Rheingold, contributing editor, is the former executive editor of Hotwired magazine and the author of "The Virtual Community."An internationally renowned advocate of free, uncensored online communication, Rheingold's home page, Brainstorms, is a virtual fixture on Netscape's What's Cool list. His shoes defy description. Rheingold lives with his wife Judy and daughter Mamie in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ian Shoales has been around the block a few times. His commentaries can be heard on public radio. His syndicated column may or may not appear weekly in a newspaper near you. A vast smattering of his pieces from the past 15 years will emerge as a CD and book in early 1996, from 2.13.61, Henry Rollins' publishing house. Please purchase them.
Sallie Tisdale is the author of five books, including, most recently, "Talk Dirty to Me" and "Stepping Westward." Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's magazines, and she is a consulting editor for Tricycle magazine. She lives, with her post-nuclear family, in Portland, Oregon.
Amy Wallace is the co-author of many books, including "The People's Almanac," and the author of "The Prodigy", a biography and "Desire," a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Cintra Wilson was a reigning bitch princess of the San Francisco theatre demimonde for several years, writing and acting in her own plays ("XXX Love Act", "Arbuckle", "Soul Hunt", "Bitzy LaFever's Kingdom of Passion Trilogy", "Dognite", and "Juvee") as well as participating in productions by such unsavory brigades as the alcoholism-and-raw-meat-informed Dude Theatre, the slightly more legit Magic Theatre and the frighteningly corporate Berkeley Rep. Cintra, whose trendy, semi-nude magazine spreads convinced a new world of people of her serious theatrical talent, was proud to be asked to direct deviant and sexually explicit plays by popular female perverts, such as Bayla Travis' "The Dyke and the Porn Stars" and the indomitable Danielle Willis' hit one-woman show "Breakfast in the Flesh District". Her animated series "Winter Steele," for which she received meager pay, has been in re-runs on MTV's "Liquid Television" for the last six years, and her advice column in the "San Francisco Examiner", CINTRA WILSON FEELS YOUR PAIN, is a minor cult phenomenon. Since January, she has been residing in Los Angeles, where she more closely observes the affections of Satan, and lives in sin with her rock-star boyfriend and their little black dog.
