Creator	Bio	Role	# of Episodes
Sam Hankin	"Samuel Hankin is a bookstore owner, lawyer, and radio host. He owns the rare books store Wellin...	Host	1174
Lionel Shriver	"Lionel Shriver is an author and journalist known for Literary Review."	Guest	1
Téa Obreht	"Téa Obreht is a Serbian-American novelist. Her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife, won the 2011 Oran...	Guest	1
Mary Roach	"Mary Roach is an author who specializes in popular science and humor. She has published nine bo...	Guest	2
Julie Orringer	"Julie Orringer is an author, writer, and lecturer."	Guest	2
David Halperin	"Dr. David J. Halperin is a Judaica scholar who specializes in religious traditions of heavenly ...	Guest	2
Casey Cep	"Casey Cep is an author, journalist, and staff writer at The New Yorker. Her work has appeared i...	Guest	1
Madeleine Thien	"Madeleine Thien is an author. She is a first-generation Canadian, and her writing often focuses...	Guest	2
Lara Vapnyar	"Lara Vapnyar is a writer and teacher. Currently, she teaches fiction writing at New York Univer...	Guest	2
Karan Mahajan	"Karan Mahajan is a novelist, essayist, and critic. He is also an associate professor in Literar...	Guest	2
Arkady Martine	"Arkady Martine is an American historian and city planner."	Guest	1
Karen Russell	"Karen Russell is an author. She won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction, ...	Guest	2
Caitlin Doughty	"Caitlin Doughty is an author, blogger, and YouTube personality known for advocating death accep...	Guest	1
Katherine Eban	"Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist, a Fortune magazine contributor, and Andrew Carne...	Guest	1
Damian Barr	"Damian Leighton Barr is a British writer, columnist, playwright, journalist, and author of the ...	Guest	1
Gregory Pardlo	"Gregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His poems, reviews, and translations...	Guest	1
Weike Wang	"Dr. Weike Wang is an author. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvani...	Guest	4
Jon Ronson	"Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker whose works include The Men Who Star...	Guest	2
Ernest Owens	"Award-winning Journalist & CEO of Ernest Media Empire, Executive Producer/Host of the podcast E...	Guest	1
Stephanie Land	"Stephanie Land is an American author who writes about poverty in the United States. "	Guest	1