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Sir Salman Rushdie One of the Most Celebrated Writers of Our Time
Sir Salman Rushdie is one of the most celebrated authors of our time—of any time. A brilliant provocateur, he's penned a handful of classic novels, influenced a generation of writers, and received a Queen's Knighthood for "services to literature." He stands as both a pop culture icon and one of the most thought-provoking...
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Patti Smith One of the Seminal American Artists of Our Time
Named one of the most influential people in the world in TIME Magazine's TIME 100, Patti Smith is a poet, singer, songwriter, photographer and fine artist. A seminal American artist, Smith has produced a body of work whose influence branches out through generations, across disciplines, and around the ...
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Sheila Heti Author of How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti is an acclaimed author of five books. Her latest work, How Should a Person Be?—a “novel from life” about friendship, art, and much else—has struck a chord with a young generation of women and men, for whom this “original, and nearly unclassifiable book” (New York...
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Teju Cole Author of Open City
Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, and street photographer. He is the author of two books: a novella, Every Day is for the Thief, and a novel, Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and named one of the best books of 2011 by the New...
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Margaret Atwood Booker Prize-Winning Author of The Blind Assassin and Payback
Margaret Atwood is a giant of modern literature who refuses to rest on her laurels. She has anticipated, satirized, and even changed the popular pre-conceptions of our time, and is the rare writer whose work is adored by the public, acclaimed by the critics, and read on university campuses. On stage, Atwood is both serious...
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Chuck Klosterman Author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and NYT Magazine Ethicist
One of the most singular and exciting cultural critics of our generation, Chuck Klosterman captures what it feels like to navigate our pop-obsessed, media-saturated culture. In bestsellers like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, he shows us why "pop" is a conversation anyone can join in on, and why...
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Colum McCann Author of Let The Great World SpinWhen Colum McCann released Let the Great World Spin in 2009, it entered the pantheon of Great American Novels almost instantly. By the end of the year, it won the National Book Award and was named Amazon's #1 Book of the Year. In his talks, McCann provides an in-depth look at the way he writes: which is, to observe...
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Carl Hiaasen One of America's Most Popular Satirical Novelists
Bestselling novelist and journalist Carl Hiaasen is among South Florida's most colorful natural resources. His comic style—Hiaasenesque—combines thrilling plot lines, blunder-prone schemes, wayward men and headstrong women, corrupt politicians, and a loving nod to the natural (and unnatural) landscape of the...
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Sloane Crosley Bestselling Author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Sloane Crosley is a witty, urbane, and madcap new voice in American letters. A glittering amalgam of Dorothy Parker and David Sedaris, Crosley writes in a sharp and elegant style that is entirely, refreshingly, her own. Entertainment Weekly calls her "a new master of nonfiction situational comedy."
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Susan Cain Bestselling Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts
Susan Cain says our culture holds a decided bias toward the "extrovert ideal" and dramatically undervalues the talents of introverts. No longer. In her bestselling book, Quiet, and in her record-smashing TED talk, Cain shows us how to change the way we work, lead, and teach in order to tap the abundant strengths...
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