Sam Quinones was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times for a decade where he covered gangs, drugs, and immigration. He has written the books Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, True Tales from Another Mexico, and the new Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.

Sam Quinones

Seth Greenland’s first memoir, A Kingdom of Tender Colors, will be published in 2020 by Europa Editions. He is the author of five novels. His 1997 play Jungle Rot won the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theater Critics Association Award. He was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love.

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<h4>Jonathan Lethem is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which is Chronic City, and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., from which the above essay is taken, is published by Doubleday.</h4>
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Jonathan Lethem

<h4>David Shields&nbsp;is the author of twelve books, including&nbsp;Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications, and&nbsp;The Thing About Life Is That One Day You&rsquo;ll Be Dead, a New York Times bestseller. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.</h4>

David Shields

<h4>Tom Lutz is the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Born-Slippy-Tom-Lutz/dp/1912248646/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=born+slippy&amp;qid=1574435254&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Born Slippy: A Novel.</a></h4>
For more, go to <a href="https://www.tomlutzwriter.com/">tomlutzwriter.com</a>

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Tom Lutz

Laurie Winer is a longtime journalist who has been on staff at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a founding editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Laurie Winer

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Jonathan Lethem is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which is Chronic City, and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc., from which the above essay is taken, is published by Doubleday.
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