Acknowledgments The SALON staff warmly thanks the following people for all the help they gave us along the path to publication:
Patrick Ames, Don Asmussen, Lauren Bender, Arwyn Bryant, Sean Carney, Barbara Jo Dale, Dennis DuBé, Chris Eagle, Chris Escher, Susan Fassberg, Thomas Fowler IV, Richard Gingras, Chris Gulker, Winonah Heldt, Heller-Manus, Sibylla Herbrich, Mark Hertsgaard, Lance Jackson, Cynthia Jones, Mark Kohut, Alan Lindsley, Eric Miller, Fred Mitchell, Standish O'Grady, Camille Peri, Carole Sacks, Mark Schapiro, Brad Schrick, Jennifer Scott, Marilyn Slankard, Suzanne Stefanac, Joe Stockwell, Mike Schwartz, Robin Wagner, John Warnock, the gang at WebGenesis, Bob Weil, Kevin Wandryk, Mary Wright, Bill Wyman.
Contributors to SALON Douglas Cruickshank has been a truck driver, disc jockey, gaffer, filmmaker, television producer and liquor store clerk. He was co-founder of The Fessenden Review ("The Noisiest Book Review in the Known World"), a long-dead literary magazine once described by the Village Voice as "a New York Review of Books for the living." His food column, "Notes From The Trough," which appeared in the late Frisko magazine, was the first to review jail cuisine. He has been a movie critic for the San Francisco Examiner as well as a feature writer for that paper's Image magazine, and he has also written extensively on travel for the Examiner, Travel & Leisure and others. Cruickshank is a former 4-H member whose sheep, Lambchop, was awarded the Grand Champion ribbon at the 1965 Alameda County Fair in the Range Ewe division.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin, and a book of short stories, Bad Behavior. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Mirabella and Vogue.
John Grimes, growing up a shy but culturally confused goy in a sea of Jewish/Catholic tract homes in the Maryland burbs, was confused by the significance of fish as religious icon. He overcame that to become the author of Reality Check, a collection of cartoons, and illustrate numerous books, including The Little PC Book. His cartoons have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, NewMedia, and Ms.
Sibylla Herbrich is a German-born photographer. She studied photojournalism at S.F. State University and is currently the photo editor at the San Francisco Daily Journal. Her photographs have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Cosmopolitan. Her current project is "Voices of our Century," which features portraits and profiles of centenarians.
Jordin Isip is an illustrator. Although he is 28 years old, he looks 17 and is known to behave like he's 12. He ran away from Queens, N.Y. to study art at RISD in Providence, R.I. A New Yorker right through to the rotten core, he now calls Brooklyn home.
John Krich is one of the most original voices in the new wave of travel writing. He is the author of El Beisbol, Music in Every Room: Around the World in a Bad Mood, and Why is this Country Dancing? His articles appear in the New York Times and the leading travel magazines. His search for the best Chinese restaurant in the world continues.
Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, which was made into a critically acclaimed PBS miniseries. He is also the author of the bestselling Maybe the Moon.
Milo Miles writes about pop culture for the Village Voice, New York Times, and the Boston Globe and contributes reviews of world music to the NPR radio show "Fresh Air."
Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson and Vamps & Tramps
Ian Shoales has been around the block a few times. His commentaries can be heard on public radio stations KQED in San Francisco, and KCRW in Santa Monica, California. 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.
Amanda Spake is a former editor of the Washington Post magazine and Mother Jones. Her writing appears in many publications. She lives in Churchton, Md.
A.S. Treadwell originates from the Midwest, but he won't say where. He's been living in Berlin for the last two years, painting. He just came back to plant himself in S.F. This is his first computer illustration.
Zach Trenholm was raised in all the appropriate locations as the product of hippies: the Haight-Ashbury, Mendocino County, Mexico and New York City. A caricaturist since childhood, his artistic heroes include Miguel Covarrubias, Paolo Garreto and Ralph Barton -- caricaturists popular during the '20s and '30s who were influenced by Cubism and constructivism. He managed an art gallery in SoHo before running away to Japan, and was a staff illustrator at the San Francisco Examiner before running away from there too.
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.
