Jonathan Ames
Author (Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel, What’s Not to Love?, The Extra Man) and monologist (Late Night with David Letterman)
Kurt Andersen
Host and co-creator of PRI's Studio 360 and author (Heyday, Turn of the Century)
Bob Balaban
Actor (A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) and producer (Gosford Park)
William Baldwin
Actor (Dirty, Sex Money, Back Draft)
John Berendt
Author (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
Mike Birbiglia
Comedian, writer and actor (Sleepwalk with Me)
Lewis Black
Comedian (Back in Black commentator on The Daily Show, Lewis Black: Black on Broadway)
Andy Borowitz
Creator (Fresh Prince of Bel Air), producer (Square Pegs, Facts of Life, Pleasantville) and humorist (The New Yorker, The Borowitz Report)
Jim Bouton
Former Major League pitcher (New York Yankees 1960-68), author (Ball Four) and co-inventor of Big League Chew bubble gum
Candace Bushnell
Author (Sex and the City, 4 Blondes) and columnist (New York Observer)
Roy Blunt, Jr.
Humorist and author (Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story, Roy Blunt's Book of Southern Humor) and contributing editor (The Atlantic Monthly)
Jim Carroll
Author (The Basketball Diaries), poet (Fear of Dreaming), and musician (The Jim Carroll Band)
Margaret Cho
Comedian (Notorious C.H.O, I'm the One That I Want) and actress (All-American Girl)
Cindy Chupack
Executive producer (Sex and the City), writer (Everybody Loves Raymond) and author (The Between Boyfriends Book)
Simon Doonan
Creative Director for Barneys New York, author (Confessions of a Window Dresser, Wacky Chicks, Nasty; My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints), and columnist (The New York Observer)
Dominick Dunne
Author (Justice: Crimes, Trials, Punishments, The Way We Lived Then) and contributing editor (Vanity Fair)
Neil Gaiman
Author (The Sandman, Anansi Boys, American Gods)
Janeane Garofalo
Comedian and actress (The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The West Wing, 24)
Teri Garr
Academy Award-nominated actress (Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Malcolm Gladwell
Author (The Tipping Point, Blink) and staff writer for The New Yorker
Adam Gopnik
Author (Paris to the Moon, Through The Children's Gate) and staff writer for The New Yorker
Philip Gourevitch
Editor of The Paris Review, Award-winning author (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda) and staff writer for The New Yorker
Spalding Gray
Obie Award-winning solo performer (Swimming to Cambodia) and actor (The Killing Fields)
Andre Gregory
Actor (My Dinner with Andre, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Mosquito Coast), and co-director (Vanya on 42nd Street)
Tim Gunn
Fashion consultant and television personality (Project Runway)
Todd Hanson
Head writer (The Onion)
Ethan Hawke
Actor (Training Day, Before Sunrise, Dead Poets Society) and author (Ash Wednesday, The Hottest State)
Tony Hendra
Author (The Book of Bad Virtues, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul), editor (Brotherhood, The National Lampoon) and actor (This is Spinal Tap)
Buck Henry
Screenwriter (The Graduate, Catch-22), actor (Art) and director (Heaven Can Wait)
Joe Jackson
Musician (The Joe Jackson Band), Grammy award-winning composer (Symphony No. 1) and author (A Cure for Gravity)
Sarah Jones
Tony- and Obie-winning American playwright (Bridge & Tunnel), actress, and poet.
Garrison Keillor
Author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion)
Starlee Kine
Public Radio producer (This American Life, Markerplace) and writer
Lewis Lapham
Editor (Harper's Magazine) and author (Lapham's Rules of Influence, Theater of War)
Doug Liman
Director (The Bourne Identity, Swingers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) and producer (Arrested Development, The O.C.)
Joe Lockhart
Former White House Press Secretary
Leonard Lopate
Radio personality (The Leonard Lopate Show)
Joyce Maynard
Author (At Home In the World, To Die For, The Usual Rules, The Cloud Chamber)
Albert Maysles
Pioneering documentary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Grey Gardens)
Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis)
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
One-third of the rap group Run-DMC
Jay McInerney
Author (Bright Lights, Big City, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls)
John Cameron Mitchell
Writer, director, actor (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus)
Moby
Award-winning musician (Hotel, 18, Play, Everything is Wrong) and DJ
Mira Nair
Academy Award-nominated director (The Namesake, Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair)
Sheila Nevins
Executive Vice President of Original Programming at HBO
Drew Nieporent
Chef, restaurateur (Nobu, Tribeca Grill)
Rosie O'Donnell
Talk show host (The Rosie O'Donnell Show) and actress (A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle)
Susan Orlean
Author (The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks for Makeup) and staff writer for The New Yorker
George Plimpton
Co-founder and former editor of The Paris Review and author (Truman Capote: An Oral History, Paper Lion)
Richard Price
Author (Clockers, Bloodbrothers, Samaritan) and screenwriter (The Wire, Ransom, The Color of Money)
Colin Quinn
Comedian (Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Saturday Night Live)
Caroline Rhea
Comedian, actress and talk show host (The Caroline Rhea Show)
Jane Rosenthal
Co-founder of Tribeca Productions and producer (Cape Fear, A Bronx Tale, Wag the Dog, Analyze This, Meet the Parents, About a Boy)
Salman Rushdie
Author (Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses)
Dan Savage
Sex Advice Columnist, author and journalist
Lauren Slater
Author (Prozac Diary, Welcome to My Country, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir)
Andrew Solomon
Author (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, A Stone Boat)
Jerry Stahl
Author (Permanent Midnight, Purv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked)
Julia Stiles
Actor (10 Things I Hate About You, Bourne Identity, Save the Last Dance)
Anna Deavere Smith
Actress and playwright (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles)
Gay Talese
Author (A Writer’s Life, The Kingdom and The Power)
Lili Taylor
Actor (Six Feet Under, I Shot Andy Warhol, Say Anything)
Suzanne Vega
Musician (Songs in Red and Gray, Solitude Standing) and author (The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega)





