Jonathan Ames

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1. Jonathan Ames

   Author of Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel, The Extra Man (Contemporary Classics (Washington Square Press)), I Pass Like Night (Contemporary Classics)

2. Jonathan Lethem

   Author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Men and Cartoons: Stories

3. Ruth Reichl

   Author of Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

4. Charles Burns

   Author of Black Hole, X'ed Out, The Best American Comics 2009

5. Alex Robinson

   Author of Box Office Poison, Tricked, Too Cool To Be Forgotten

6. A. M. Homes

   Author of The End of Alice, Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories

7. Laurie Colwin

   Author of Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

8. Judith Jones

   Author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, The Pleasures of Cooking for One

9. David Foster Wallace

   Author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

10. Felice Picano

    Author of Like People in History, Men Who Loved Me, Looking Glass Lives

11. Dave Eggers

    Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category

12. Deborah Madison

    Author of What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Stories and 100 Recipes

13. Chester Brown

    Author of I Never Liked You: The New Definitive Edition, Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir about Being a John

14. Harvey Pekar

    Author of The Best American Comics 2006, The Quitter

15. Amy Bloom

    Author of Come to Me: Stories, Love Invents Us, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude

16. Ed Brubaker

    Author of Criminal: Coward, Criminal: Lawless

17. George Saunders

    Author of Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation, The Braindead Megaphone

18. Gary Shteyngart

    Author of Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, The Russian Debutante's Handbook

19. Gary Indiana

    Author of Horse Crazy, Rent Boy (High Risk Books)

20. Brad Gooch

    Author of Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity