Chip Ward Chip Ward
Chip Ward is a former grassroots organizer/activist who has led several successful campaigns to hold polluters accountable. He described his political adventures in Canaries on the…
Apr 2, 2010
Andrew Ross Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, and author of many books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times.
Apr 2, 2010
Curtis Wilkie Curtis Wilkie
Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South, lives in New Orleans and Oxford, Mississippi, where he holds the Cook Chair in Journ…
Apr 2, 2010
Christine Smallwood Christine Smallwood
Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.
Apr 2, 2010
Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage).
Apr 2, 2010
Corey Robin Corey Robin
Corey Robin, who teaches at Brooklyn College, is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea, and The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, which has just come out in paperback.
Apr 2, 2010
Laila Lalami Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami, the author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an associate professor of creative writing at the university of California, Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor’s Account, will be published next year.
Apr 2, 2010
Milton Viorst Milton Viorst
Milton Viorst, who has covered the Middle East as a journalist for more than three decades, is the author of six books on the subject. His latest, to be published by Random House n…
Apr 2, 2010
Brenda Marie Osbey Brenda Marie Osbey
Brenda Marie Osbey is poet laureate of the state of Louisiana.
Apr 2, 2010
Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand
Michael Tisserand, the author of Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember (Harvest), is currently working on a biogra…
Apr 2, 2010