Scanner by Emily Farris Today on Hooksexup's culture blog: Naomi Campbell on the last true supermodel.
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Emily Eakin is a fashion features writer at Vogue magazine.
Bilge Ebiri lives in Brooklyn and reviews films for New York magazine, and has written for Time Out New York, Entertainment Weekly, and Popular Science, among others. He is also the writer and director of the ultra-low-budget indie feature comedy, "New Guy." In case you're wondering, his name is pronounced "Bill-guh," and no, his parents weren't into boating.
Andrew Einhorn has been photographing nudes since the early nineties. A journalism graduate from Temple University, he has always had a passion for the people side of photography, and thrives on the challenge of convincing others that posing would be fun, good for their health and would make great art. He likes to work fast, shoot a lot of film and make sure his subjects are having the times of their lives. Einhorn has had a few openings in clubs, and plans to put out a book as soon as he can get famous from his cable-access TV show, Dog the Cat.
M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., entered the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant at the age of eighteen. She attended the University of Arkansas Medical School on the G.I. Bill, and later joined the UAMS faculty as a professor of pediatrics. In 1987 Dr. Elders was appointed Director of the Arkansas Department of Health. She was nominated as Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service by President Clinton on July 1, 1993, and sworn in September 8th. Dr. Elders stepped down from this post in December 1994 to continue her professional career at UAMS. She tells her story in Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General. Currently, she is writing a book, with Rev. Dr. Barbara Kilgore, on masturbation.
Stephen Elliott is the author of the novels Happy Baby, What It Means To Love You, A Life Without Consequences, and Jones Inn. www.stephenelliott.com
Stephan Ellis, spent much of his early life as a hard drinking bass player for local New Jersey/NYC rock bands during the late 70's and early 80's. Concurrently he spent his time photographing what he called the 'beauty of decay': The crumbling infrustructure of the urban and sometimes rural environments he found himself. In his recent move to photographing the human form, the passionate disorder of the love-making act finds similar structres of converging lines. He is now working to compile a book of his work spanning the past 25 years.
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A writer and performer in theater, film and TV, John Epperson is Lypsinka!, a.k.a. The Official Celebrity of the New Millennium. His award-winning shows include Lypsinka! As I Lay Lip-Synching, the autobiographical piece John Epperson: Show Trash and the play My Deah, a version of Medea set in the New South. See www.lypsinka.com.
Alicia Erian is the author of The Brutal Language of Love, a collection of short stories. She lives in Brooklyn.
Maggie Estep has published two books, Diary of an Emotional Idiot and Soft Maniacs. Her third book, Hex, a crime novel, will be out in December from Shaye Areheart Books/Crown Publishers. She has written for Black Book,Harper's Bazaar,Spin,New York Press and the Village Voice. She lives in Brooklyn and likes to hang out at racetracks, cheering on longshots.
Mark Ewert is a freelance writer and tarot card reader living in San Francisco. "A Boy for Bill Burroughs" is an excerpt from his memoir in progress, Guileless. He also created the internet's first "skit-com," www.spiritshow.com.
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