Writers


Matthew De Abaitua, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Matthew De Abaitua is deputy editor of The Idler.

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Letter From London: Pay Attention, Matthew De Abaitua confuses branded junk with self assessment. Matthew De Abaitua 14

 
Matthew Battles, Columnist, editors@hermenaut.com
Matthew Battles, a writer living in Jamaica Plain, MA, is a contributor to Harper's Magazine, Boston Book Review, London Review of Books and other publications.

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The Manuscript of Belz, Matthew Battles tells a tale of crafted forgery. Matthew Battles
Frappucino Solo, Starbucks executives briefly flirted with the notion of turning Joe into an academic journal. Matthew Battles
"I Like My Rails", The apparently moralistic Thomas stories replace the ostensibly Christian values of their Anglican author with the utilitarian and Matthew Battles
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Peter Bebergal, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Peter Bebergal, a freelance writer living in Cambridge, MA, is a frequent contributor to the online journal CTHEORY.

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The Failure of the New Subjectivity, The radical individualists are now lived-texts in the songs and stylings of folks like Manson Peter Bebergal

 
Margaret Blonder, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Margaret Blonder works at the Economist magazine.

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Memories of the Biosphere, The sorry fate of Biosphere 2 Margaret Blonder 15
Learning from Miami: An Architectural guide to Coping with Urban Sprawl, Margaret Blonder find beauty in the parking lot of an A&P Margaret Blonder

 
Carol Carbone, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Carol Carbone is a lawyer and social worker in San Francisco.

Recent Articles
Identiopathy, Carol Carbone explores her own Inverted Self Aggrandizing Psychosis. Carol Carbone

 
Lisa Carver, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Lisa Carver writes, sings, and dances to earn her keep in Dover, NH.

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The Art of Being Uncomfortable, Lisa Carver on discomfort and beauty Lisa Carver 11
Interview With An Anorexic, Lisa Carver withholds sympathy from the anorexics. Lisa Carver 14

 
Clarke Cooper, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Clarke Cooper is a programmer who lives in Washington D.C>

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Apocalypse Already, These days even the end of the world is Disneyfied Clarke Cooper 11
Naked Co-Ed Molerat Games, We don't expect much from the Action/Adventure aisle. Clarke Cooper
My Life as a Wookiee, Don't bother talking to Clarke Cooper about movies; you're wrong. Clarke Cooper 14
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Caleb Crain, Contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
>Caleb Crain is a contributing writer at Lingua Franca. He also writes for the New Republic and the New York Times Book Review. His book

Recent Articles
On Queer Theory, Remarks at the New York Association of Scholars for Reasoned Discourse in a Free Society, 18 September 1998 Caleb Crain

 
Editors, Editorial staff, editors@hermenaut.com
>Josh Glenn

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Philosophywatch, Hermenaut is about the philosophy of popular culture Editors
Hermenaut Online, This is the place where you can share your comments about the Web site Editors
Best Letters Ever, The Best of The Reader Speaks: Letters to Hermenaut. Editors
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Contributing Editors, Contributing Editors, editors@hermenaut.com
>In addition to contributing to the general well-being of Hermenaut

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Payload: 01.31.01, Several of Hermenaut's contributing editors get together to pay the bills. The reviews include Comb in Blue Water, We've Got Issues: The Get Real, No B.S., Guilt-Free Guide to What Really Matters, Time Regained, La Commune, The (Mystic, Conn.) Traveler Contributing Editors
Payload, Several of Hermenaut's contributing editors get together to pay the bills. Contributing Editors
Payload: 11.29.00, Several of Hermenaut's contributing editors get together to pay the bills. Contributing Editors
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Chris Fujiwara, Columnist, editors@hermenaut.com
Chris Fujiwara is a regular contributor to Hermenaut, The Boston Phoenix, and Feed and the author of Jacques Tourner: The Cinema of Nightfall (McFarland and Company).

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Freaknolia, Chris Fujiwara tells us something "important" about the American cinema today. Chris Fujiwara
Atlas Against the Czar, The sword and sandal runs its course. Chris Fujiwara
100 Years...100 Laughs, "Over the last hundred years we've loved and laughed so hard at so many movies Chris Fujiwara
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Keith Gessen, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Keith Gessen is a freelance writer for FEED and other publications. He lives in Cambridge

Recent Articles
Simpsons at the Gates, The loss of a referenceable reality will eventually destroy our civilization. Keith Gessen

 
Joshua Glenn, Editor, editors@hermenaut.com
Joshua Glenn is the editor and publisher of Hermenaut, and a contributing editor to Feed, The Idler, and Britannica.com.

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Journal: June 1999, Josh Glenn re-examines himself and decides to drink Joshua Glenn
Journal: February 1999, Josh Glenn re-examines himself. Joshua Glenn
Journal: August 1999, Josh Glenn re-examines himself and the death of Harper's. Joshua Glenn
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Peter Glenn, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
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Hermenaut Online, You are testing Hermenaut online. This is just for debugging purposes. Peter Glenn

 
Matt Goldberg, contributor, editor@hermenaut.com
Matt Goldberg is an on-line editor and freelance writer in New York City.

Recent Articles
Feel Like A Stranger, Matthew Goldberg remembers his embarrassing attempt to be a "real" Deadhead Matt Goldberg 15
Vertigo Rush, Jorge Luis Borg ghost writes for the X-Files Matt Goldberg 13

 
A. S. Hamrah, Critical Affairs Department, editors@hermenaut.com
A. S. Hamrah mans Hermenaut's Critical Affairs Desk and writes for The Baffler and the Boston Book Review.

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A Better Mousetrap, What was deservedly an obscure fetish is underground no more. A. S. Hamrah
The Astrologer Inside Me, A.S. Hamrah channels the astrological musings of one Jim Thompson Jim Thompson A. S. Hamrah 13
The Half Karen, A. S. Hamrah explains the characteristic pose of women in our era. A. S. Hamrah 14
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Mr. Slotcar Hatebath, columnist, editors@hermenaut.com
Mr. Slotcar Hatebath writes regularly for Hermenaut and Suck.

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Their America: Bar? None., Does beer taste real-er in faux pubs? Mr. Slotcar Hatebath 15
Their America: Yesss! ...Thud., Mr. Hatebath promotes extreme sports to "fast forward" natural selection. Mr. Slotcar Hatebath 13
Their America: Nudes On the Moon, Space Art Solves Country's Financial Mr. Slotcar Hatebath 14
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Club Havana, Film Critics, email@hermenaut.com
Chris Fujiwara and A. S. Hamrah are Club Havana Productions

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The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1983, The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1983 Club Havana
The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1953, The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1953 Club Havana
The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1976, The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1976 Club Havana
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Jessica Hundley, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Jessica Hundley puts out a publication called Mommy and I Are One.

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Pilgrim's Progress, Jessica Hundley explores the relocation of authenticity in living museums. Jessica Hundley

 
Peter Kuper, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
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Topsy Turvy , Weekly illustrations from Peter Kuper's strip Topsy Turvy Peter Kuper

 
Mary E. Ladd, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Mary Laddis a co-editor of the pop culture Web zine Ape Culture.

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Onward Christian Tourists, Mary Ladd and Julie Wiskirchen go on a religious pilgrimage to the ruins of Holyland USA Mary E. Ladd Julie Wiskirchen 15

 
Joseph Lanza, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Joseph Lanza is best known as the author of Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Musak

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Comoerotic, Pleasantville Joseph Lanza

 
Todd Levin, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Todd Levin is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn.

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HUIS CLOS, PARTIE DEUX (No Exit, Act II), Todd Levin translates Sartre's long-lost second act to NO EXIT Todd Levin
That Darn Drunk, Todd Levin has discovered a new project at Disney. Todd Levin

 
Venus de Malachite, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
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Marlo's Meiji Masterpiece, Venus de Malachite laments the conservation of the inauthentic. Venus de Malachite

 
John Marr, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
John Marr is the publisher of the zine Murder Can Be Fun.

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Campanile Free-Fall, The end of Camponile's Age of Innocence John Marr 13

 
Scott McLemee, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
>Scott McLemee is a freelance writer whose work frequently appears in Lingua Franca and In These Times. Hermenaut has given him "an acute sense" of "the conflict between aesthete and politico in [his] own muddled self."

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A Little Happy Dance, Scott McLemee reviews the book Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks Scott McLemee

 
Dara Moskowitz, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Dara Moskowitz is an award-winning food columnist for the Twin Cities' City Pages.

Recent Articles
Suffragist City, Dara Moskowitz weighs the pros and cons of historical anorexia. Dara Moskowitz 14

 
Jim Munroe, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Jim Munroe

Recent Articles
Insider, The Musical: An Interview with Chris Wilcha, Jim Munroe, publisher of Holiday in the Sun and author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask interviews Chris Wilcha, maker of the film The Target Shoots First. Jim Munroe

 
James Parker, columnist, editors@hermenaut.com
James Parker is a freelance journalist whose first book is Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins.

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Noisy Parker, Queens of the Stone Age, Soul Brains, Lungfish, and more James Parker 15
But First...Are You Experienced?, James Parker looks for the answers concerning innocence and experience and is visited. James Parker
James Parker's Golden Ears: Scissorfight, James reviews SCISSORFIGHT James Parker
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Ernest Pascucci, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
>Ernest Pascucci

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Intimate Televisions, TV and architecture Ernest Pascucci

 
Dan Reines, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
Dan Reines is a freelance writer and on-line editor of the New Times LA.

Recent Articles
The Juice on Dick Gregory, Dan Reines gives us the juice on monk discipline. Dan Reines 14
Letter from LA, Dan Reines loves fake meat. Dan Reines 15
Pure Evel, Dan Reines shivers in the presence of Evel. Dan Reines 13

 
Susan Roe, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
> Susan Roe is a Human Resources professional in Boston.

Recent Articles
No Hidden Meanings, The market forever displaces us and our hidden meanings. Susan Roe

 
David Rothenberg, contributor, editors@hermenaut.com
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Recent Articles
The Phenomenology of Reverb, Reverb works directly at the level of the senses David Rothenberg