Contributors

David Samuels is editor and co-founder of County Highway. He had a long career as a staff and contract writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Point, and … Continue Reading

Walter Kirn is a fiction writer, essayist, critic, and editor-at-large of County Highway. His novels include Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, both of which were made into major feature films. His … Continue Reading

Valen Lambert is a writer based in Oregon. She is the associate editor of County Highway. Continue Reading

Ryan Baesemann is a writer, editor, and farmer living in California. He is the managing editor of County Highway. Continue Reading

Noah Rawlings is an American writer. He is an associate editor at County Highway. His headshot was taken by Valentine Lambert. Continue Reading

Amanda Fortini,  County Highway's "Remedies" columnist, is a certified flower essence practitioner. She has written for  T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker,  The Paris Review, and … Continue Reading

Matthew Fishbane is the art director at County Highway. Continue Reading

Ted Mann is a writer whose credits include NYPD Blue, Deadwood, Homeland, and the mini-series Hatfields and McCoys. Continue Reading

B. Duncan Moench writes about American exceptionalism and the myths it relies on. Continue Reading

Susannah Samuels is a high school-aged music writer from Brooklyn, NY. She enjoys adding to her patch pants, going to shows, and playing with her dog. Continue Reading

Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of political journalism, history, fiction, and poetry. A contributor to Tablet and County Highway, he has been an editor or contributor of … Continue Reading

Meaghan Garvey is a writer and illustrator living on the beach in the Midwest. Continue Reading

Chandler Fritz is on staff at The New York Review of Books, and a contributing writer to County Highway. Continue Reading

Tama Janowitz lives on a remote mesa in the high desert of southwest New Mexico, where a lot of aliens live. She has authored 12 books: The first one, American Dad, a novel, was published in 1983 and … Continue Reading

Will Self is a writer, he lives in London. His photograph was captured by Don McCullin. Continue Reading

Jonah Raskin lives on the coast of Northern California, where it's usually windy, foggy, and chilly. Good weather for staying indoors and writing, though he has also written indoors in hot and humid … Continue Reading

Lee Clay Johnson is from Middle Tennessee. Bloodline is his second novel. Continue Reading

Martin Mull spent his boyhood in rural Ohio during the 1950s before earning an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He then became a songwriter and performer, opening for Randy Newman, Frank … Continue Reading

Jeff Weiss is an LA-based writer whose family lore claims a tenuous biological kinship with Harry Houdini (née Ehrich Weiss), which may explain his affinity for the Grateful Dead's "West LA … Continue Reading

Armin Rosen is Tablet Magazine’s only correspondent-at-large. Continue Reading

Farahn Morgan is a contributing writer to County Highway. She lives and works in the American South. Continue Reading

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain is a Jones lecturer at Stanford University, where he formerly held a Stegner fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review. He is … Continue Reading

Clayton Fox is a columnist at County Highway, author of Agricultural Digest and the Grain Report. He is a founding member of the as-yet-unrealized rock band Mother and the Curtain. Continue Reading

Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist who has spent time with monkeys and macaws in the Amazon, wrasses and rays in the Caribbean, chameleons and poison frogs in Madagascar, and some very fine … Continue Reading

Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature and the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and six story collections, … Continue Reading

J.D. Daniels published The Correspondence (FSG) in 2017. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, n+1, and elsewhere, including The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel … Continue Reading

Ian Frazier writes essays, humor pieces, and books of travel, memoir, and human geography. He has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor twice, and on May 21, 2004, he won The Glenlivet Manhattan … Continue Reading

Wade Graham is a historian, journalist, and landscape designer based in Los Angeles. He is most recently the author of Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii, an environmental … Continue Reading

Drew Bratcher is the author of Bub: Essays From Just North of Nashville. He lives outside Chicago with his wife, four kids, and a dog named Billy Faulkner. Continue Reading

Krist Novoselić is best known as the bassist in Nirvana. He also plays finger style acoustic guitar in the American Primitive style, and of course accordion. Continue Reading

Jefferson Morley is editor of the JFK Facts and the author of a trilogy of spies: Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA; The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James … Continue Reading

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is founder, chairman and chief litigation counsel on leave for Children’s Health Defense. He is the founder of Waterkeeper Alliance — the world’s largest clean water advocacy … Continue Reading

Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is a writer and publisher and the founder of Les Éditions du sous-sol. His first novel, Constellation (Other Press, 2015), was awarded the Grand Prix du … Continue Reading

Habib Sabet is a writer who lives on the Canadian border in Vermont. Continue Reading

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Micah Fields is the author of We Hold Our Breath, a book about Houston and its story of development and storms (W. W. Norton 2023). He lives in Helena, Montana, where he writes, teaches, and works as … Continue Reading

Alex Perez is a Cuban-American writer and long-time pro wrestling fanatic from Miami. Continue Reading

Benjamin Samuels is an alumni of Deep Springs College in California. Continue Reading

Brandon Meeks (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is an Arkansas native. He is an author and serves as editor-in-chief for Moonshine and Magnolias: A Journal for Southern Regional Consciousness. Continue Reading

Alana Pockros lives in New York by way of Southern California. She is an editor at The Nation and Cleveland Review of Books and has written criticism and essays for outlets such as The Baffler, The … Continue Reading

Virgil Huston is a retired Army peon stationed in West Germany later to serve in Iraq II. He is a world traveler, poet, photographer, and lover of all things dog. He still misses smoking on … Continue Reading

Ani Wilcenski is a writer and the audience editor at Tablet Magazine. Continue Reading

Robert Michael Pyle is a naturalist and writer whose 28 books cover territory from butterflies to Bigfoot. His essays, fiction, and poetry grow out of the Lower Columbia River, the Colorado tundra, … Continue Reading

Nicholas Russell is a writer and critic from Las Vegas. His work has been featured in McSweeney’s, The Believer, The Baffler, Reverse Shot, The Point, and Defector. He is a re-lapsed Catholic … Continue Reading

Sage Radecki is a writer, rancher, and herbalist living along the central coast of California. She is kin with the California Sagebrush lining the foggy, coastal mountains of her home. Nature has a … Continue Reading

When not in the Indiana timberlands seeking curly maple for a niche market, Troy frequents an historic theater in his hometown of Vincennes, The Pantheon, now a co-working space where he seeks words … Continue Reading

Cynthia Orgel is a copy editor at New York Magazine. Sometimes she self-publishes poetry chapbooks and writes about music. Continue Reading

Joshua Levine is an ex-barrister who has written lots of history books and worked on a fair number of films. He once received a recruitment letter from MI6 but never replied. Or did he? Continue Reading

Charlie Smith, a fifth-generation Los Angeles native, can usually be found whispering snarky advice in a friend's ear, impressing innocents with parlor tricks, surfing in a neon wetsuit, writing … Continue Reading

Isaac Sligh works in New York City as an Associate Editor at The New Criterion. Waco, Texas, Sewanee, Tennessee, and Tbilisi, Georgia, are three places he has called home. Continue Reading

J.J. Solari is a writer who bears notable resemblance to Huckleberry Finn. His work can be found in Easyriders, and now County Highway. Continue Reading

Ryan Anderson writes at the intersection of fatherhood and the natural world. More of his work can be found at "Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree" on Substack. Continue Reading

Norah Geiger is stationed in Brooklyn, where she spends the bulk of her time riding her bike, writing poetry about cows, and avoiding the Dimes Square ilk. Continue Reading

Shane Cashman is the host of Inverted World Live and the singer of The Joy Feed. Continue Reading

Gerry Stanek grew up in Western Pennsylvania and is the son of a coal miner. He was a working musician into his late thirties and played well over 4000 gigs to earn those hearing aids in venues like … Continue Reading

Chris Read is a third-generation Nevadan, youth basketball coach, and aspiring Magister Ludi of the glass bead game.  Continue Reading

Leighton Woodhouse is a California-based independent journalist and documentary filmmaker. He writes for The Free Press, UnHerd, the San Francisco Standard, and his Substack, Social Studies. Continue Reading

David Jager was born in the small northern California town of Santa Rosa, but felt an immediate pull towards New York City. He has worked as a line cook, manager of an oddities museum, singing … Continue Reading

Chris Bray was an infantryman, a suburban journalist, and an academic historian, but he's none of those things anymore. He's the author of a widely ignored book about the history of American military … Continue Reading

Zan Jarvis loves dogs, comfortable shoes, trails in forests and celebratory cavorting. Continue Reading

C.B. Huckabee is a prior Navy Diver, current psych grad student, and writer of fiction and essays. He lives in northern California with his wife, sons, dog, and a tarantula that no one wanted but … Continue Reading

Luke Lyman lives in New York and misses the Rockies. He's an associate editor at The Spectator. Also, he's an Eagle Scout. Continue Reading

Lazo Gitchos is a writer and laborer from the east side of the North Cascades. He often wonders. Continue Reading

Bett Williams is the author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey. She is the steward of land in the Galisteo Basin where Mabel Dodge Luhan’s bathtub resides. Continue Reading

Ben Arthur is a writer based in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has previously appeared in Bandcamp Daily, BOMB, No Depression, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue Reading

Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Blake Smith is a historian, translator, and writer now living in Chicago. Continue Reading

Ken Silverstein is the founder of Washington Babylon, an investigative tabloid that covers the US and the world in the Age of Oligarchy. His work can be found in County Highway, New York, New … Continue Reading

Matt Farwell emerged from the Wasatch Mountains in Utah forty years ago, and then grew up in Turkey, Germany, Virginia and New Mexico before dropping out of college to enlist in the Army infantry. … Continue Reading

Keturah Lamb is living the old-fashioned American Dream. Barefoot in all things, she works as a seamstress and writes short fiction in the waning hours. Continue Reading

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Timothy Jack Denevi is an American author, essayist, and professor known for his nonfiction works examining American politics, mental health, and cultural history. Continue Reading

Aaron Gwyn is an American short story author, novelist, and English professor. Continue Reading

Millan Verma is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia. Continue Reading

Thomas McGuane lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of ten novels, including the National Book Award-nominated Ninety-two in the Shade, three works of nonfiction, and four … Continue Reading

Liel Leibovitz is Editor at Large for Tablet and an itinerant drunk.  Continue Reading

Gus O’Connor is a writer living in New York City. He is the associate editor of Panamerica Books. Continue Reading

Jimmy Rosenfeld is fortunate to have been born and raised beside that mighty River, the Mississippi, and among its blues, jazz, and strong roots of rock ’n’ roll. Continue Reading

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John Berlau, a music contributor, is director of finance policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of George Washington, Entrepreneur. Continue Reading

Josh Kaufman is a Grammy Award winning musician and producer. He's a founding member of the groups Bonny Light Horseman and Muzz and lives with his family in Kingston, NY. Continue Reading

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Jacob Siegel is a writer and podcaster. He is a combat veteran who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a captain in the 69th Infantry. Continue Reading