Megan Abbott The Fever, You Will Know Me, The End of Everything etc.
Christina Baker Kline A Piece of the World, Orphan Train, The Way Life Should Be, Sweet Water, Bird in Hand etc.
Josiah Bancroft Senlin Ascends, The Arm of the Sphinx
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore June, Bittersweet etc.
Nancy Burke, From the Abuelas’ Window, If I Could Paint the Moon Black
Nicole Dennis Benn Here Comes the Sun
Marcy Dermansky The Red Car, Twins, Bad Marie
Alice Elliott Dark In the Gloaming, Think of England
Dagmara Dominczyk The Lullaby of Polish Girls
Garth Risk Hallberg City of Light, Field Guide to The North American Family
Dara Horn Eternal Life, A Guide for The Perplexed, All Other Nights etc.
Samantha Hunt The Dark Dark
Min Jin Lee Pachinko, Free Food for Millionaires
Belinda McKeon Tender, Solace, A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance
Jillian Medoff This Could Hurt, Good Girls Gone Bad, I Couldn’t Love You More, Hunger Point
Tom Perrotta novelist and screenwriter, author of Mrs Fletcher, Little Children, The Election etc.
Wena Poon Chang’an, Cafe Jauze etc
Anna Quindlen Alternate Side, Miller’s Valley, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue
Jonathan Santlofer It Occurs to me that I am America: New Stories and Art (editor), Kate McKinnon novels etc.
Matthew Thomas We Are Not Ourselves
Kem Joy Ukwu Locked Gray / Linked Blue, Brain Mill Press February 2018
Kristen Witucki, The Transcriber, Outside Myself
Meg Wolitzer The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, This is My Life etc.
Thad Ziolkowski Wichita
Jonathan Alter –
The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope; The Promise: President Obama, Year One; The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies; Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People and Culture
Yasemin Besen-Cassin – Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Eric Boehlert Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet changed Politics and the Press; Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush
David Cay Johnston It’s Even Worse than you Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America; The Making of Donald Trump
Deborah Davis The Trip, Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure; Guest of Honor: Booker T Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and the Whitehouse Dinner that Shocked a Nation; The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy; Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort etc.
Nicolas Delbanco The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts, Curiouser and Curiouser, Lastingness, The Art of Old Age; Literature: Craft and Voice; etc.
Arielle Ekstut The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, The Secret Language of Color etc.
Dani Fleischer
Jaclyn Friedman Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and how to Stop Letting the System Screw us All
David Galef Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook, Flesh, Turning Japanese, How to Cope with Suburban Stress etc.
Joe Hagan Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Dan Hurley Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power, Diabetes Rising etc.
Wesley Lowery They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.
Patricia Matthew Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure
D.T. Max Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace; The Family that Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery
Lucy McDiarmid At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916; Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the Literary History of a Meal etc.
Anna Quindlen Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Michael Robbins Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
Lisa Romeo, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss
Jonathan Santlofer The Widower’s Notebook: A Memoir
Melissa Schilling Quirky, The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
David Henry Sterry The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, Chicken, Master of Ceremonies etc.
Brea Tremblay
Jason Williams A Critical Analysis of Race and the Administration of Justice
Leslie Wilson Reaching Out: The History of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Introduction to African Civilization
David Yaffe Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Warren Zanes Petty: The Biography; Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers’s America; Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
Joshua Zeitz Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House etc.
Thad Ziolkowski On A Wave
Rich Douek Gutter Magic
Emily Flake Mama Tried: Dispatches From the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting,
Kevin Pyle Bad For You: Exposing the War on Fun; Blind Spot, Take What You Can Carry etc.
R. Sikoryak Masterpiece Comics, Terms and Conditions, The Unquotable Trump
Lauren Weinstein Girl Stories, Inside Vineyland, Goddess of War
Jorge Aguirre Monsters Beware! Dragons Beware! etc.
Elinor Blake We’re Going to be Friends
Bruce Coville The Monster’s Ring (Magic Shop books), My Teacher is an Alien (My Teacher books), The Enchanted Files: Cursed etc.
Sayantani DasGupta Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond
Sarah Beth Durst The Stone Girl’s Story, The Girl Who Could Not Dream, Journey Across the Hidden Islands etc.
Kristine Lombardi Mr Biddles, The Grumpy Pets, Lovey Bunny etc.
Alex London The Skybound Saga, Proxy etc.
Denise Lewis Patrick Waiting for Someplace, A Matter of Souls etc.
David Lubar Hidden Talents, Weenie Stories, Looniverse etc
Mike Moran Poopendous, Project Droid etc
Yvonne Ventresca Black Flowers, White Lies, Pandemic etc.
Colette Bryce Selected Poems, The Whole and Rain-domed Universe, Self-Portrait in the Dark etc.
Pamela Hughes Meadowland Take My Hand
Ghana Imani Hylton
Teka Lark Queen of Inglewood
Ananda Lima
Tanya Manning-Yarde Every Watering Word
Michael Robbins The Second Sex, Alien vs Predator
Roger Sederat Haji as Puppet: An Orientalist Burlesque, Foot Faults: Tennis Poems, Ghazal Games: Poems, Dear Regime etc.
Carole Stone Late, Hurt, The Shadow, American Rhapsody
Vincent Toro Stereo. Island. Mosiac
John Trause Why Sing?, Picture This: For Your Eyes and Ears, Exercises in High Treason etc.
Reagan Arthur Senior Vice President and Publisher, Little, Brown
Marissa Rothkopf Bates Freelance writer for Newsweek, The New York Times, Real Simple etc.
Pat Berry Founder, College Application Camp
Susan Dominos Journalist, NY Times Magazine
Robert George Opinion Writer, NY Daily News
Andrew Rosenthal Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Maria Russo Children’s Book Editor, The New York Times
Ken Schlager Editor, NJ Monthly
Patrick Wilson Actor