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William Gibson is an acclaimed science fiction novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, known for coining the term “cyberspace.” He has been called the “noir prophet” of the “cyberpunk” community. His 1984 book Neuromancer was the first to win the three top science fiction prizes -- the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Throughout his writing career he has published three trilogies, including The New York Times best-selling Blue Ant series. His newest novel is The

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most distinguished and critically-acclaimed fiction writers in America. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

James Ellroy is an author known for his noir-style crime fiction, primarily set in Los Angeles. Some of his past works have been adapted into Hollywood successes including the Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia. His latest novel, Perfidia, is set in Los Angeles during World War II, as Japanese internment camps begin forming.

Martin Amis is a celebrated and prolific author whose credits include London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Time's Arrow and The Information. His fourteenth novel, The Zone of Interest, is a satire set at Auschwitz. It has attracted attention and controversy, especially in Europe.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, Nicholas Kristof is a journalist, author and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His books have all been co-written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn and primarily focus on poverty, health, and human rights in the developing world.

Katha Pollitt is an award-winning author and columnist for The Nation. Her work of essays surrounding feminism, women’s rights, and politics have been made into books including Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism and Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time.

Ross Douthat is a conservative Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2009, previously working as a senior editor at The Atlantic. He has written a number of books including Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class.

Bob Woodward is one of America's most prominent investigative reporters and non-fiction writers. He currently serves as Associate Editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. Woodward worked with Carl Bernstein to investigate and report the Watergate scandal, which lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He has written 16 national best-selling non-fiction books.

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed, highly distinguished author, whose thirteenth book is the recently published The Children Act. McEwan has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976, the Man Booker Prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam and the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002 for his novel Atonement.

Mark Bittman is an opinion columnist and lead food writer for The New York Times. He’s written two books, the best-selling How to Cook Everything and the groundbreaking Vegan Before 6P.M. (VB6), which introduced Americans to the Flexitarian diet. His newest book is How to Cook Everything Fast.

Lizz Winstead is co-creator, former writer and former correspondent for The Daily Show.

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker.

Richard Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated independent filmmaker. His newest film, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years with the same cast and is already generating Oscar buzz.

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley are husband-and-wife indie rock pioneers who formed the influential and much-admired band Yo La Tengo three decades ago. Their thirteenth album, Fade, was released last year.

Noel Wells is a featured player on Saturday Night Live, her first season on the program. In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles and appeared in numerous online comedy videos. Her self-produced sketch videos have over 12 million views on YouTube.

Russell Gold is the Senior Energy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal and author of the new book The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. Gold was part of the Journal's reporting team on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon.

Martin Baron is Executive Editor of The Washington Post, overseeing the Post's print and digital news operations. The Post was recently awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Before joining the Post, Baron was editor of The Boston Globe for 11 years.

Jeffrey Tambor is a six-time Emmy-nominated actor best known for playing two of the greatest characters ever to grace a television screen: Hank Kingsley in The Larry Sanders Show and George Bluth Sr. in Arrested Development. He recently starred in Amazon’s web-only pilot Transparent.

Brian Stelter is CNN's Senior Media Correspondent and host of Reliable Sources. Stelter joined CNN in November after six years at The New York Times, where he covered the television and digital media industries. Stelter also wrote the New York Times best-seller Top of the Morning, which uncovers the darker side of morning television.

Jason Schwartzman is an actor and musician whose credits include the HBO series Bored to Death and the films Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, Funny People, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and, now in theaters, The Grand Budapest Hotel.