2 THE NEW YORKER, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
CONTRIBUTORS
Amanda Petrusich (“Just a Modern Guy,”
p. 30) is a staff writer. Her most recent
book is “Do Not Sell at Any Price: The
Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s
Rarest 78rpm Records.”
Calvin Tomkins (“Surface Matters,” p. 18)
covers art and culture for The New
Yorker. A six-volume edition of his art-
ist profiles will be out in October.
Madeleine Schwartz (Books, p. 63) is
launching a new iteration of the mag-
azine The Dial.
John Kenney (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 25)
has written four books, including “Love
Poems for People with Children,” which
comes out this fall.
Antonia Hitchens (The Talk of the Town,
p. 14) is a former member of the mag-
azine’s editorial staff.
Tony Hoagland (Poem, p. 51), who died
in 2018, was the author of several po-
etry collections, including “Priest
Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God,”
which was published last year.
Nick Paumgarten (“The Message of Mea-
sles,” p. 38) has written for the maga-
zine since 2000.
Liaquat Ahamed (“Widening Gyre,”
p. 26) is the author of “Lords of Fi-
nance: The Bankers Who Broke the
World,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Kate Walbert (Fiction, p. 48) has pub-
lished six works of fiction. “She Was
Like That,” a collection of new and
selected stories, comes out in October.
Jessica Lee (Poem, p. 42) is an M.F.A.
candidate at Vanderbilt University. Her
poems have appeared in The Missouri
Review and Prairie Schooner.
Liana Finck (Sketchbook, p. 35) is a New
Yorker cartoonist. Her book “Excuse Me:
Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to
Self ” will be published in September.
Kadir Nelson (Cover), whose work is
in the National Portrait Gallery, has
received Caldecott Honors and the Si-
bert Medal. He illustrated “The Un-
defeated,” by Kwame Alexander.
PERSONS OF INTEREST
Louisa Thomas writes about Félix
Auger-Aliassime, the nineteen-year-
old rising star in men’s tennis.
KVETCHBOOK
The first installment of Barry Blitt’s
new series of weekly drawings:
analyzing the President’s coif.
LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH BY JARED SOARES FOR THE NEW YORKER; RIGHT: BARRY BLITT
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