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Frank Bruni

Former New York Times restaurant critic and bestselling author of Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater

Sarah Chayes

NPR reporter and author of The Punishment of Virtue

Dudley Clendinen

Journalist and author of A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America

Jared Cohen

Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker journalist

Ana Marie Cox

Original voice of the political blog Wonkette and Time magazine columnist

Jan Crawford

CBS News chief legal correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Supreme Conflict

Peter Elkind

Fortune magazine editor and co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary, a young girl’s account of the siege of Sarajevo.

Jane Ganahl

Author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife

Elizabeth Gilbert

One of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, 2008, and author of the New York Times bestsellers Committed and Eat, Pray, Love

Michelle Goldberg

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Margaret Heffernan

Five-time CEO and Fast Company columnist

Joshua Kendall

Award-winning journalist and author of The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

Lauren Kessler

Bestselling author of Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

David Lida

Journalist and author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century

Steve Lopez

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Jacki Lyden

NPR Senior Correspondent

Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair contributing editor and co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Ahmed Rashid

Pakistani journalist and bestselling author

Thomas E. Ricks

Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post journalist and bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble

Ariel Sabar

Journalist and author of the award-winning My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Family's Past

Julie Salamon

Award-winning journalist, author, and critic

Ellen Ruppel Shell

Journalist and author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture