Robert Charles Black Jr. is an American anarchist and author. He is the author of the books The Abolition of Work and Other Essays, Beneath the Underground, Friendly Fire, Anarchy After Leftism, and Defacing the Currency, and numerous political essays.
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". In 2021, Franzen published the first in a projected trilogy, Crossroads, which Becca Rothfeld of The Atlantic called "[his] best book yet."
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche is a book by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami about the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. The book is made up of a series of interviews with individuals who were affected by the attacks, and the English translation also includes interviews with members of Aum, the religious cult responsible for the attacks. Murakami hoped that through these interviews, he could capture a side of the attacks which the sensationalist Japanese media had ignored—the way it had affected average citizens. The interviews were conducted over nearly a year, starting in January 1996 and ending in December of that same year.
Charles John Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of twelve books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002.
Daryl Haney, also known by the pen names Duke Haney and D. R. Haney, is an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and essayist.
Daniel Anthony Olivas is an American author and attorney.
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program. Tillman is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, two collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. She writes a bi-monthly column "In These Intemperate Times" for Frieze art magazine.
Brad Listi is an American author and podcast host. His first novel, Attention. Deficit. Disorder., was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2006, and became a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. His second book, Board, co-authored with Justin Benton, is an experimental nonfiction literary collage published by TNB Books, the publishing imprint of the online culture magazine and literary collective The Nervous Breakdown, of which Listi is the founding editor. TNB has more than 1,000 contributors and featured authors and a monthly book club, the TNB Book Club. Listi’s second novel, 'Be Brief And Tell Them Everything,' was released in 2022 by Ig Publishing.
Leslie McGrath was an American poet, editor, and educator. Critic Grace Cavalieri called McGrath “an oral historian of the alienated." She authored the poetry collection Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives ; Out From the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse, and Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage, a finalist for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry;. She received the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2004, and taught at Central Connecticut State University from 2009 - 2019. She published three chapbooks: By the Windpipe ; the satiric novella in verse, Out From the Pleiades ; andToward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award. Her most recent publication is a full-length collection of poetry Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives. McGrath co-edited Reetika Vazirani's posthumous poetry collection, Radha Says: Last
The Nervous Breakdown (TNB) is an online culture magazine and literary community, founded in 2006 by Brad Listi, author of the bestselling novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder. TNB is also an independent publisher of fiction and nonfiction, having launched its own imprint called TNB Books in June 2010. The site also has its own monthly book club called The TNB Book Club.
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass is a collection of essays written by British writer, doctor and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple and published in book form by Ivan R. Dee in 2001. In 1994, the Manhattan Institute started publishing the contents of these essays in the City Journal magazine. They are about personal responsibility, the mentality of society as a whole and the troubles of the underclass. Dalrymple had problems in finding a British publisher to help him turn his individual essays into a collection, so he eventually turned to American companies for publication.
Ben Loory is an American short fiction writer. He is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. Loory’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Fairy Tale Review, and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches short story writing at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
Banned for Life is a novel by American writer D. R. Haney, published by And/Or Press in 2009. Primarily set in New York City and Los Angeles, the book is a first-person account of a musician-turned-filmmaker's immersion in the punk-rock scene of the 1980s and his subsequent struggles in Hollywood.
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns is written by Charles Bukowski, edited by David Stephen Calonne, and published by City Lights. It includes newspaper columns and essays that have never been collected and published together.
Tiny Hardcore Press is an Illinois-based small press founded by Roxane Gay, who was an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, and co-edits the literary magazine PANK. Tiny Hardcore Press's first title, Normally Special by pseudonymous author xTx, is in its fifth printing, and has received reviews from, among other places, The Nervous Breakdown and the literary blog Bookslut.
Matthew Gavin Frank is an American writer, specializing in creative nonfiction, the lyric essay, literary food and travel writing, and poetry.
Amina Gautier is an American writer and academic. She is the author of three short story collections, many individual stories, as well as works of literary criticism.
Kurt Baumeister is an American novelist, essayist, critic, and poet. His debut novel, a satirical thriller entitled Pax Americana was selected as a Best Book of 2017 by [PANK] Magazine. He has written for Salon, Rain Taxi, Electric Literature, Guernica, Entropy, The Nervous Breakdown, The Rumpus, The Good Men Project, and others. He has an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and is a contributing editor at The Weeklings. "Review Microbrew," his review column, is published by The Nervous Breakdown. Baumeister is an editor with 7.13 Books in Brooklyn, NY.
Elisa Gabbert is an American writer, poet and essayist. She is the author of numerous books and is currently a The New York Times poetry columnist.
