Special Guests for The Devil and Tom Walker Talk Backs

May 11, 2008

Burkhard Bilger Burkhard Bilger has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New York Times, and numerous other publications, and have been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Food Writing, and The Best American Sports Writing. His book, “Noodling for Flatheads,” was a finalist for a PEN-Faulkner Award in 2000. Bilger lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jennifer Nelson, and children, Hans, Ruby, and Evangeline.

Amanda Petrusich A staff writer at Pitchforkmedia.com and a senior contributing editor at Paste, Amanda Petrusich is the author of Pink Moon, a short book about Nick Drake's 1972 album. Her second book, a travelogue about early Americana music titled It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, is forthcoming from Faber and Faber this August. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Oxford American, Spin, The Onion A.V. Club, ReadyMade, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

May 18, 2008

Elizabeth L. Bradley, Ph.D. Elizabeth L. Bradley, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.  She is the author of the forthcoming Knickerbocker: The Myth that Made New York (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and has also edited a Penguin Classics edition of Washington Irving's History of New York, which will be released next year in celebration of the book's bicentennial.  Her work on New York City history and culture has been published in Bookforum and The New-York Journal of American History.