Speakers on Fiction
Ayad Akhtar
tells many stories in many ways.
Hala Alyan
is seeding a new narrative.
Elif Batuman
is un-put-downable.
Jessamine Chan
scrutinizes societal expectations.
Andrei Codrescu
is an OG.
Maureen Corrigan
reads a lot, like, A LOT!
Sloane Crosley
is a cultural critic with a punch(line).
Dave Eggers
is an author of staggering brilliance.
Akwaeke Emezi
is a revelation.
Isaac Fitzgerald
is who we want to be when we grow up.
Ben Fountain
is a pretty good attorney but a great writer.
Roxane Gay
is feminist AF.
Khaled Hosseini
makes books like Bruce Springsteen makes albums.
Dave Isay
is saving our stories for our great-grandchildren.
Evan James
has been called hilarious, sophisticated, and other things too.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
is writing love letters to lineage.
Alexandra Kleeman
takes you through the looking glass.
Rachel Kushner
writes like your favorite mixtape plays.
R.O. Kwon
sets the page aflame.
Lyz Lenz
will get you fired up.
Paul Lynch
gets to the heart of the matter.
Carmen Maria Machado
thinks misogyny is boring as hell (and genre, too).
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
understands the cost of war and the power of literature.
Josh Malerman
uses a dashboard as a desk.
Elizabeth McCracken
is a book lover's book lover.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
calls us to re-examine our own history.
Maulik Pancholy
is an actor, activist, author - basically The Best At It.
Ann Patchett
is a champion of literary culture.
Lisa Scottoline
puts the best in bestselling.
Namwali Serpell
faces the world.
Luis Alberto Urrea
is a literary badass with a rock and roll heart.
Jeff VanderMeer
writes the uncanny.
Daniel Wallace
tells tall tales in the tradition of tall tale telling.
Jemimah Wei
knows how to make words linger.
Kevin Wilson
has tricks up his sleeve.
