Jonathan Ames
Author (What’s Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, The Extra Man, Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel) and monologist (Oedipussy, Late Night with David Letterman)
Bob Balaban
Actor (A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) and producer (Gosford Park)
John Berendt
Author (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
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)
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)
Dominick Dunne
Author (Justice: Crimes, Trials, Punishments, The Way We Lived Then) and contributing editor (Vanity Fair)
Janeane Garofalo
Comedian and actress (The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion)
Teri Garr
Academy Award-nominated actress (Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Adam Gopnik
Author (Paris to the Moon), editor (Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology), and staff writer for The New Yorker
Philip Gourevitch
Award-winning author (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, A Cold Case) 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)
Todd Hanson
Head writer (The Onion)
Ethan Hawke
Actor (Dead Poets Society, Training Day) 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)
Peter Hedges
Director (Pieces of April), author (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, An Ocean in Iowa), screenwriter (A Map of the World, About a Boy), and playwright (Baby Anger, Good as New)
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)
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-- author (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis)
John Cameron Mitchell
Writer, director, actor (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Moby
Orainmy Award-winning musician (Hotel, Play, Everything is Wrong) and activist
Mira Nair
AoMbmyAward-- dimctm (Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair)
Sheila Nevins
President of Documentary and Family Programming for HBO and Cinemax
Drew Nieporent
Chef, restaurateur (Nobu. Nobu Next Door. Tribeca Grin, Montrachet)
Rosie O'Donnell
Talk show host (The Rosie O'Donnell Show) and actor (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 of The Paris Review and author (Truman Capote: An Oral History, Paper Lion)
Richard Price
Author (Clockers, Bloodbrothers, Samaritan) and screenwriter (Shaft, Ransom, The Color of Money)
Colin Quinn
Comedian (Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Saturday Night Live)
David Rakoff
Author (Fraud. Don't Get Too Comfortable) and contributor to NPR's This American Life
Caroline Rhea
Comedian, talk show host (The Caroline Rhea Show) and actor (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
Jane Rosenthal
Co-founder of Tribeca Productions and producer (Cape Fear, Meet the Parents, About a Boy)
Robert Schimmel
Comedian (Robert Schimmel Comes Clean, Unprotected, and Hardcore In the -Apple)
Lauren Slater
Author (Prozac Diary, Welcome to My Country, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir)
Andrew Soloman
Author (The Noonday- Demon: An Atlas of Depression, A Stone Boot)
Jerry Stahl
Author (Permanent Midnight, Purv: A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked)
Gay Talese
Author (Thy Neighbors Wife, Unto the Sons, A Writer's Life)
Lili Taylor
Actor (Six Feet Under, High Fidelity, Say Anything)
Suzanne Vega
Musician (Songs in Red and Gray, Solitude Standing) and author (The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega)