contributors' biographies

Andrei Codrescu

A social commentator and humorist, Andrei Codrescu once stated that his New Year's resolution was to "watch more TV, so I'll know what people are talking about when they talk, and what my students are saying when they are saying things." He continued, "I also decided to change my mind about everything I've been sure about last year."

Born in Transylvania, Romania in 1946, he emigrated to the United States at age twenty. Of his homeland, he writes, "Romanians, like other people under the merciless gun of history, have never put their faith in big official buildings where the power of the day resided. They preferred instead to stay close to the earth and to make their own statements about the purpose of space."

Andrei is now a Professor of "English and Sedition" at Louisiana State University in the United States.