Jul 6, 2024
Gary Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters nationwide including Carnegie Hall. He has been a guest on every major late-night comedy program. Gulman’s four comedy specials include HBO’s The Great Depresh, a highly acclaimed look at mental illness. In 2019 he appeared in the international blockbuster Joker. He has a recurring role on the Hulu comedy series Life & Beth. A product of Boston, Gulman was previously a scholarship college football player, an accountant, and a high-school teacher. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the ’80s is his first book.
Jul 6, 2024
Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, serves as chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He has authored, coauthored, and edited forty-two books, including Emancipating Lincoln, Lincoln at Cooper Union, and three award-winning books for young readers: Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons, The President Is Shot!, and Abraham Lincoln, the Writer. His new book is Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. His awards include the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City.
Jul 6, 2024
James Marcus was born in the literary hotbed of Paterson, NJ, and grew up in the New York area. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and a half-dozen translations from the Italian, the most recent being Giacomo Casanova’sThe Duel. His new book is Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His work has appeared many publications, including the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Salon, the Nation, Raritan, the Paris Review, and the Village Voice, and his essay “Faint Music” was selected for Best American Essays 2009. He is Deputy Editor at Harper’s Magazine, after a three-year tenure at the Columbia Journalism Review.
Jul 6, 2024
Jeffrey Rosen is the author of nonfiction books, including the recent Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet and William Howard Taft. He is the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, a law professor at George Washington University, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His new book is The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. He lives in Washington, DC.
Jul 6, 2024
Anna Shechtman is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University and will be an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English in 2024. Her new book is Riddles of the Sphinx. In addition to her bimonthly crosswords for The New Yorker, she has written for a number of outlets, including ArtForum, The New Inquiry, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is an editor-at-large. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.)
