Contributors

Joan Juliet Buck, author of the novel The Only Place to Be, is currently 3,444 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps, finishing her second novel.

Italo Galvino, the grand master of allegory and obsession, is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Baron in the Trees, Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, If on a winter s night a traveler, and Marcovaldo, which will be appearing in the United States this fall. The story in this issue will be included in a new collection to be published in the spring of 1984.

Greg Constantine is an artist, teacher, and satirist. Vincent van Gogh Visits New York, selections from which appear in this issue, will be published in September.

Stephen Jay Gould is a biologist, geologist, award-winning essayist, and ardent baseball fan. His most recent collection of essays on natural history is Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison'sVisions of Glory is a personal account of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness. Her profiles and essays have been collected in Off Center, and her first novel, Foreign Bodies, will be published next year.

Michael Hill runs the Music for Dozens showcase for up-and-coming bands at Manhattan's Folk City. He was an editor of NY Rocker.

Simon Hoggart is a political writer for the London Observer.

Lewis H. Lapham was the editor of Harper's magazine from 1976 to 1981 and is the author of Fortune's Child. He summers in Newport, where he is able to observe firsthand "the place of wealth in the American imagination," the subject of his next book.

Howard Moss has written many books of poetry, critical essays and plays, among them The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust and Whatever Is Moving. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters since 1971, he spends his spare time cultivating his garden.

Lisa St. Aubin de Teran, who ran an avocado and sugar estate in the Andes for seven years, now lives in England with her husband, poet George MacBeth. She is the author of two novels: The Long Way Home, based on her experiences in Venezuela, and Slow Train to Milan.

Gregory Sandow is a composer and music critic. His works include an opera based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Stephen Schiff recently completed a film lecture tour of Latin America and was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in distinguished criticism. He is a pianist and songwriter, and is at work on a book about "the tyranny of the image."

Peter Schjeldahl is a poet and art critic. In 1981 he collaborated with painter Susan Rothenberg (interviewed by him in this issue) on a volume of poems and drawings, The Brute.

Brian Sewell, a regular contributor to the British magazines Tatler and The World of Interiors, is currently at work on "a panoramic view of Western art from the year dot," as well as two travel books and his third novel. He also paints, plays the violin, walks mongrels, and appears on "really bad" television.

Carol Squiers's photography criticism has appeared in the Village Voice, Artforum and Modern Photography. She collects postcards of Popes and newspaper photos, and has curated contemporary photography shows in Vienna and Milan and at PS. 1 in New York.

Ronald Steel, "incurable Hellenophile," is the author of Pax Americana and Walter Lippmann and the American Century.

Paul Theroux, intrepid novelist and traveler, has lived in Uganda and Singapore and currently divides his time between Cape Cod and London. His most recent books are The Mosquito Coast and The London Embassy, and the article in this issue is from his forthcoming book, The Kingdom by the Sea.

Auberon Waugh, former soldier (Cyprus, ret. with wounds) in Her Majesty's service, now wields only a pen, most notably as a diarist for Private Eye and in his Spectator column, "Another Voice." He has also written novels, essays, and the recent The Last Word: An Eyewitness Account of the Trial of Jeremy Thorpe.

William Weaver, who won the National Book Award in 1969 for his translation of Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, lives most of the year in Tuscany. He has written and lectured widely on opera, and his biography of Eleanora Duse will be appearing next year.