Woke up this morning to find Backwards City #3 on our porch. Subscribers will be getting their copies in the mail in a week or so. Lapsed subscribers and nonsubscribers, your time is up, you must subscribe.

Things are busy at the moment in the Backwards City, so we won't have a chance to update the Web site until the weekend. In the meantime, all you can do is bask in the glow of our mighty contributor's list:

Martin Arnold * Rafael Avila * Lynda Barry * Sarah Blackman * C.L. Bledsoe * J.G. Brister * Isaac Cates and Mike Wenthe * Michael Czyzniejewski * Noah Falck * Gibson Fay-LeBlanc * Melissa Jones Fiori * David Harrison Horton * Julia Johnson * Eric Joyner * Andrew Kozma * Jonathan Lethem and Chris Offutt * Clay Matthews * Brian MacKinnon * Lindsay Nordell * John Pursley III * Jesse Reklaw * Beth Anne Royer * David Shumate * Matthew Simmons * Patricia Storms * Amish Trivedi * Debbie Urbanski * Bart Vallecoccia * John Verbos * Mark Wallace * M.O. Walsh * Joshua Marie Wilkinson