JIM SHEPARD
You Think That’s Bad

ELIZABETH KOLBERT
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences’ Communications Award. Kolbert lives with her husband and three sons in Williamstown, Massachusetts. 

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RICH REMSBERG
Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs From the Great Depression ARCHIVAL CATASTROPHES

CLANCY MARTIN
Clancy Martin’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, Esquire, the London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. His first novel, How to Sell, was chosen by the Times Literary Supplement and many other publications as a “Best Book of 2009.” His writing has been translated into Russian, Czech, and Portuguese, among other languages.

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