JT LeRoy

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1. Dave Eggers

   Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

2. JT LeRoy

   Author of Sarah: A Novel, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Harold's End

3. Dennis Cooper

   Author of Frisk, Closer, My Loose Thread (Cooper, Dennis)

4. Michael Chabon

   Author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, McSweeney's Issue 10: Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

5. Nick Hornby

   Author of Songbook, The Polysyllabic Spree, Speaking with the Angel

6. Editors of McSweeney's

   Author of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 13, McSweeney's Issue 16: Also Comes With A Comb, Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists

7. Jonathan Lethem

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

8. Bret Easton Ellis

   Author of American Psycho, Less Than Zero, The Informers

9. Sarah Vowell

   Author of Assassination Vacation, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Take the Cannoli

10. Poppy Z. Brite

    Author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Liquor

11. David Sedaris

    Author of Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

12. Chuck Palahniuk

    Author of Invisible Monsters, Diary, Haunted

13. David Foster Wallace

    Author of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

14. Jonathan Safran Foer

    Author of The Future Dictionary of America: a book to benefit progressive causes in the 2004 elections featuring over 170 of America's best writers and artists.

15. A. M. Homes

    Author of The End of Alice, Safety of Objects

16. Edmund White

    Author of A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, Genet: A Biography

17. Eli Horowitz

    Author of The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 1

18. Jean Genet

    Author of Our Lady of the Flowers, Querelle, Miracle of the Rose

19. Dorothy Allison

    Author of Trash, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature

20. Hubert Selby, Jr.

    Author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream: A Novel