Authors

Nate Wooley

Nate Wooley is a the founder and editor of Sound American as well as being a trumpet player and composer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Michael Nicholas

Michael Nicholas is an urban planner and editor at Failed Architecture.

Zara Karschay

Zara Karschay is a writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New Humanist, and elsewhere.

Jackson B. Smith

Jackson B. Smith is a writer, translator, and scholar.

Chris Marker

Chris Marker was a French filmmaker, writer, and multimedia artist.

Grayson Scott

Grayson Scott is a writer and an editorial fellow at The Baffler.

is a filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is a contributing editor and occasional podcast cohost for Screen Slate. Her debut feature, A Feast of Man, is streaming on Amazon Prime, Vimeo, and Tubi. Her second feature, Revelations of Divine Love, is in postproduction. ...

Katie Kirkland

is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Another Gaze and BOMB Magazine and is forthcoming at The New York Review of Books. She’s currently completing her PhD in film studies and comparative literature at Yale, where she researches reenactment and experimental ...

Julia Lans Nowak

is a writer based in Los Angeles, California. While her work is primarily in poetry and translation, she has also been researching and writing about the Nevada Nuclear Test Site since 2015. As a Polish-American from Las Vegas, raised fifty miles from the Test Site, she was ...

Stephanie LaCava

is a writer based in New York. LaCava began her career at American Vogue and her work has since appeared in The Believer, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and The New Inquiry. Her debut novel The Superrationals was published by Semiotext(e) in ...

Max Rivlin-Nadler

Max Rivlin-Nadler is a journalist based in New York City. He’s a co-founder of Hell Gate, a worker-owned local news outlet that you should definitely subscribe to.

Jimmy Cajoleas

Jimmy Cajoleas was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He lives in New York.

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