Jessica Bruder
Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and resilience.
For her most recent book, "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" (W.W. Norton & Co.), she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border.
Jessica has been teaching at Columbia Journalism School since 2008. She has written for publications including Harper's Magazine, The Nation, WIRED, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Interna
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Charlie LeDuff
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He covered the war in Iraq, crossed the desert with a group of migrant Mexicans and worked inside a North Carolina slaughterhouse as part of The Times series “How Race Is Lived in America,” which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
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Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. Its sequel, The Hidden Palace, was published in June 2021. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.
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Vincent Crapanzano
Vincent Crapanzano (Dist Prof, Anthropology and Comparative Literature, City University of New York) graduated from the Ecole Internationale in Geneva, received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard, and his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Paris, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Brasilia, and the University of Cape Town. He has lectured in major universities in North and South America, Europe, Hong Kong, and South Africa.
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Benjamin Taylor
Benjamin Taylor is the author of a book of essays, Into the Open, and two novels, Tales Out of School, winner of the Harold Ribalow Prize, and The Book of Getting Even, a 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award Finalist, a 2008 Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year, and a Ferro-Grumley Prize Finalist. In October 2009, The Book of Getting Even appeared as El Libro de la Venganza in Spain, where it was named a best book of the year by El Pais. In November 2010, Viking Press released Saul Bellow: Letters, edited by Taylor. Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, a travel memoir from Marian Wood Books, is scheduled for 2012. Taylor is a graduate of Haverford College and Columbia University where he earned the doctorate in English and comparati
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Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright (born 1945) is a British novelist.
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He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for the Liberal Party and then the SDP-Liberal Alliance during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed an MBE.
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Joan Didion
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His latest book, The Human Scale , is a sweeping, timely thriller, in which a Palestinian-American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. According to The New York Times, “Wright succeeds in this complex, deeply felt work.”
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Hoff has also studied architecture, music, fine arts, graphic design and Asian Culture. His studies in Asian Culture included reaching the certificate level in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, had two years of apprenticeship in Japanese fine-pruning methods, and four years of instruction in the martial art form of T'ai chi ch'uan, including a year of Ch'i Kung. In his spare time, he practices Taoist Qigong and T'ai chi ch'uan.
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Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he moved to Germany in the 1980s to study Philosophy, German Literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He received his doctoral degree at Freiburg with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger in 1994.
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Domenico Starnone
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Ha collaborato e collabora a numerosi giornali (l'Unità, Il manifesto per cui è stato redattore delle pagine culturali) e riviste di satira (Cuore, Tango, Boxer), con temi generalmente improntati alla sua attività di insegnante di liceo.
Ha scritto con costanza su Linus, negli anni '70-'80.
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Andre Dubus
Award-winning author Andre Dubus II (1936–1999) has been hailed as one of the best American short story writers of the twentieth century. Dubus’s collections of short fiction include Separate Flights (1975), Adultery & Other Choices (1977), and Dancing After Hours (1996), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Another collection, Finding a Girl in America, features the story “Killings,” which was adapted into the critically acclaimed film In the Bedroom (2001), starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei. His son Andre Dubus III is also a writer.
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Marco Missiroli
Vive a Rimini fino alla maturità scientifica, trasferendosi successivamente a Bologna per iscriversi al corso in Scienze della comunicazione dell'Alma Mater Studiorum. Nel 2002, segue i corsi della Scuola Holden a Cesena esperienza conclusa non in modo positivo. Si laurea nel 2005 con la tesi L'oggetto culturale nell'industria italiana. Il caso del Signor M. ovvero i criteri di pubblicazione di un libro.
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Il suo romanzo d'esordio, Senza coda (Fanucci, 2005), ha ricevuto nel 2006 il Premio Campiello Opera prima; si tratta di un'opera che racconta "di un'infanzia che si misura angosciosamente con il mondo adulto, con le sue sopraffazioni e violenze, varcando la linea d'ombra che conduce ad una pensosa maturità".
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Selvaggia Lucarelli
Selvaggia Lucarelli è un'opinionista, conduttrice televisiva, conduttrice radiofonica e blogger italiana.
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Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Giada Messetti
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An Yu
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Christopher Wylie
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William Barclay
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Keith M. Martin
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Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is currently a Senior Advisor and Scholar for the Foundation for Law and International Affairs (FLIA) and routinely conducts policy analyses. He is part of the group Supporters (Friends) of Standing Together in the Washington DC metro area.
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He served from February 2022 – December 2023 as the International Medical Corps Mission Director in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), supervising a staff of seven expats of different nationalities and over 75 local Palestinian staff, in Gaza and Bethlehem. He was elected in 2022 to the Executive Committee of the Association for International Development Agencies (AIDA) and served on the UN OCHA Humanitarian Country Team and UN HF Advisory Board.
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Jerry Ellis
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Natasha K. Warikoo
Natasha Kumar Warikoo is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University. She is an expert on the relationships between education, racial and ethnic diversity, and cultural processes in schools and universities. Her most recent book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016), illuminates how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. The book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related to affirmative action and diversity, and how these vary across racial and national lines. Natasha’s first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global Cit
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Jan Urban
Journalist and pedagogue.
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Harold Brighouse
Harold Brighouse was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.
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Marek Wolski
Marek Wolski (ur. 1984) – drukarz, grafik, wspinacz i eksplorator miejski. Studiował papiernictwo i techniki poligraficzne. Przez kilka lat pracował w lombardzie, obecnie wykonuje rozmaite prace drukarskie i wysokościowe. "Na żywo z lombardu" to jego książkowy debiut.
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Erik Baláž
Erik Baláž sa narodil v Stropkove v roku 1978. V roku 2002 vyštudoval odbor Ekológia lesa na Lesníckej fakulte Technickej univerzity vo Zvolene. Už počas štúdií bol aktívny v kampaniach Lesoochranárskeho zoskupenia VLK, ktorých cieľom bola ochrana prirodzených lesov. Je jedným z hlavných organizátorov občianskej iniciatívy My sme les, ktorá vznikla v roku 2017 za účelom ochrany národných parkov a vzácnych lesov proti masívnej ťažbe, a členom Slovenského ochranárskeho snemu. V roku 2017 získal ocenenie Biela vrana za „výnimočnú vytrvalosť a oddanosť svojmu poslaniu získať ľudí pre ochranu prírody, schopnosť vytvárať v nich vzťah k prírode a spájať rôznych aktérov“. V apríli roku 2018 oznámil vstup na politickú scénu za stranu SPOLU – občians
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