Holly Brubach is an American writer who has written primarily about cultural differences and their impact on people. She has been a staff writer for The Atlantic and The New Yorker . [1] [2] She was also a Style Editor at the New York Times Magazine. [3] [4] [5] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. [6]
Her first book was Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova, which won the De La Torre Bueno prize for Best Dance Book in 1986. In 1998, her book Girlfriend: Men, Women & Drag [7] was named by the New York Times as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of the Year. [8] She also wrote an anthology called A Dedicated Follower of Fashion. [9] [10]
Brubach has written for film and television including programs for PBS such as Balanchine. Her freelance article writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, The Gentlewoman, Gourmet, Vogue, Golf Digest, and other publications. [6]
Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), among other books. She wrote frequently about psychoanalysis as well as the relationship of the journalist to subject and was known for her prose style as well as polarizing criticism of her own profession, though her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, became a mainstay of journalism-school curricula.
Catherine Sue Opie is an American fine-art photographer. She lives and works in West Adams, Los Angeles, as a tenured professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian-American photographer. Plachy's work has been featured in many New York city magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for the Village Voice."
Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer based in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Amy Arbus is an American photographer. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Anderson Ranch, NORD photography and the Fine Arts Work Center. She has published several books of photography, including The Fourth Wall which The New Yorker called her "masterpiece." Her work has appeared in over 100 periodicals including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the daughter of actor Allan Arbus and photographer Diane Arbus, the sister of writer and journalist Doon Arbus, and the niece of distinguished poet Howard Nemerov.
Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his critically acclaimed comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker,Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."
Maira Kalman is an Israeli-born American illustrator, writer, and blogger. She is known for her playful and witty illustrations, featured in publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker, and the children's books that she has both written and illustrated.
Julian Rubinstein December 27, 1968 is a journalist, author, producer and educator. He is best known for his non-fiction books, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, which chronicled the life of one of the world's most popular living folk heroes and The Holly, a multi-generational story about activism and gang violence in a northeast Denver community.
Deborah Elizabeth Copaken is an American author and photojournalist.
Eve Babitz is an American artist and author best known for her semi-fictionalized memoirs and her relationship to the cultural milieu of Los Angeles.
Patricia Lockwood is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her memoir Priestdaddy was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. In 2021, her debut novel No One Is Talking About This was released to critical acclaim. Her poetry collections include Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book. Since 2019, she has been a contributing editor for The London Review of Books.
Helen Schulman is an American novelist, short story, non-fiction, and screenwriter. Her fifth novel, This Beautiful Life, was an international bestseller, and was chosen in the 100 Notable Books of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review.
Jessica B. Harris is an American culinary historian, college professor, cookbook author and journalist.
Hampshire House is an apartment building and hotel located at 150 Central Park South in Manhattan, New York City, on the southern edge of Central Park between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It contains 155 apartments on 36 floors.
Jason Fulford is an American photographer, publisher and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York City.
Agnes Callard is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy.
Janna Ireland is an African-American photographer based in Los Angeles.
The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden is a nonfiction book by William Alexander, published in 2006. The $64 Tomato was a nominee for Quill Award in the debut author of the year category and was selected for the 2006 National Book Festival.
Mary E. Frey is an American photographer and educator who lives in western Massachusetts. Her staged scenes of mundane middle-class life, using family, friends and strangers, which appear to be documentary at first sight, are intended to address "the nature of the documentary image in contemporary culture."