The New Yorker Out Loud

Bill Buford is the author of The General. He writes about the worlds he immerses himself in, bringing readers along for the ride.

Jeffrey Eugenides (born March 8, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the novels The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002) — winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — and The Marriage Plot (2011), as well as the short-story collection Fresh Complaint (2017). He teaches creative writing at New York University.

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and received a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012.

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

Steven Milhauser is an author whose stories have been featured in "The New Yorker Out Loud." He writes fiction that often explores themes of fantasy and everyday life.