It’s our pleasure to welcome Pitchaya Sudbanthad as our newest Contributing Writer. He’s written a number of great stories for TMN—about Nigella Lawson’s juicy tomatoes, the Nets’ move to Brooklyn, Spalding Gray’s death, the sounds of music lit-sters One Ring Zero, and his experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia.

Pitchaya is also the founding editor of the Konundrum Engine Literary Review (which has, for example, Jonathan Ames on Henry James’s testicles). He lives in Manhattan. Look for more frequent top-notch contributions in the future, now that he’s wearing the TMN-branded leather cuffs.