Billy Collins
Collins has spent decades welcoming readers into poetry with humor and tenderness that slips, almost imperceptibly, into profundity.
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Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is a writer who has built her career on illuminating the uneasy spaces between people—the moments of vulnerability, desire, cruelty, and connection that many prefer…
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Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz writes with razor-sharp humor and unflinching honesty, capturing the contradictions of boyhood, race, family, and diaspora in a voice that’s instantly recognizable.
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Laurie Woolever
Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor. She spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites and World Travel.
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John Seabrook
John Seabrook is a veteran New Yorker staff writer and cultural critic. He delves into family legacy and American enterprise in his latest book, The Spinach King: The Rise and…
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Chyana Marie Sage
Chyana Marie Sage is a Cree, Métis, and Salish memoirist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Edmonton, Alberta.
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Joan Larkin
Joan Larkin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Old Stranger: Poems, as well as Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems.
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