Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
Dane Huckelbridge, author of ‘Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit’
Melissa Gira Grant, author of ‘Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work’
David Adam, author of The Man Who Couldn’t Stop
Caitlin Moran, author of How to Build a Girl
Michael Gibney, author of ‘Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line’
William Cohan, author of ‘The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities’
Matthew Algeo, author of Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favourite Spectator Sport
George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
TJ Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
Cormac Lucey, author of ‘PLAN B: How Leaving the Euro Can Save Ireland’
Patricia Carlin, author of ‘How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom’
John Kasson, author of The Little Girl Who Fought The Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America’
Hiawatha Bray, author of ‘You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves’
Eve Schaub, author of ‘Year Of No Sugar’
Harvey Molotch, author of ‘Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing’ and Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University