David Aldridge is a senior columnist for The Athletic, primarily covering the NBA and Washington, D.C., sports. The Athletic is a digital subscription sports website now operating through The New York Times Company, and has more than 1.2 million subscribers… Continue Reading

Amanda Becker is a veteran, Washington, D.C.-based journalist who has covered the U.S. Congress, White House, Supreme Court and elections for nearly two decades. She is currently with The 19th, a first of its kind nonprofit, independent newsroom covering gender,… Continue Reading

Megan Doney is a writer and English professor in Virginia. Her work has been published in Ilanot Review, New Limestone Review, Rappahannock Review, Creative Nonfiction, Earth & Altar and Inside Higher Ed, as well as in the anthologies “Allegheny” and “If… Continue Reading

Glory Edim is a literary tastemaker, author and advocate for diverse voices in literature. In 2015, she founded Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG), an online platform and book club dedicated to celebrating the literary works of Black women authors and creating… Continue Reading

Evan Friss is a New York Times best-selling author and a professor of history at James Madison University. His most recent book, “The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore,” garnered rave reviews in The Washington Post, The New York… Continue Reading

David Gessner is the author of “The Book of Flaco: The World’s Most Famous Bird,” and many other books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir and environmentalism, including The New York Times best-selling “All the Wild That Remains.”… Continue Reading

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a New York Times best-selling author and an accomplished journalist. She is a contributing writer to The Atlantic and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and PBS, among… Continue Reading

Mark Jacob, former metro editor of The Chicago Tribune and former Sunday editor of The Chicago Sun-Times, is the co-author of 10 books, mostly about history. Mark writes the Stop the Presses newsletter about media and politics at stopthepresses.news. He… Continue Reading

Matthew Jacob is a public health consultant who has authored more than 10 peer-reviewed journal articles about health communication or policy. A former journalist, he has authored two books, both of them with his older brother Mark. Published in 2010,… Continue Reading

“Most Honorable Son: A Forgotten Hero’s Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II” is the fourth non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-finalist journalist and historian Gregg Jones. His previous books are “Honor in Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the… Continue Reading

Colleen Long, a White House correspondent for The Associated Press whose work has appeared in every major news publication in the world, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. She lives in Washington, D.C. She will be presenting… Continue Reading

Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of seven books, including “Why We Love Baseball,” “The Baseball 100,” “Paterno” and “The Secret of Golf.” He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations.… Continue Reading

Paul Sparrow is a writer, public speaker, historian and former director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. His book “Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR’s War of Words with Charles Lindbergh and the Battle to Save Democracy” received rave… Continue Reading