Brooklyn born and based writer Jonathan Baumbach is the author of B, Reruns, Babble, Chez Charlotte & Emily, The Life and Times of Major Fiction, Seven Wives, and D-Tours. Michael Cunningham, Russell Banks, and Bernard Malamud, have lauded Baumbach’s often-experimental fiction, as have many others.

Originally from San Francisco, Cintra Wilson has written the books Colors Insulting to Nature, and Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations. She is also the author of numerous short stories, plays, screenplays, and columns.

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Frazier made his new album Outside in his apartment using one microphone, a few guitars, trumpet, recorder, harmonica and a handful of percussion. He performs regularly in venues throughout NYC.