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Amy Goodman is the host of Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine Democracy Now!

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter.

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998.

Dr. Cornel West has been described as one of America's most vital and eloquent public intellectuals.

David Foster Wallace is the author of the novel Infinite Jest; three short story collections, The Broom of the System, The Girl with Curious Hair, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men; and a collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.

Gilbert Sorrentino, "like a reckless heir to Borges, Barthelme and Groucho Marx, co-opts the language of critical discourse to subvert his audience's preconceptions and, in so doing, redraws the boundaries of 'acceptable' art" (The New York Times).

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, considered Germany's most important living poet, is also a highly regarded essayist, journalist, dramatist, editor, publisher, and translator.

Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is the author of twenty books.

Joyce Carol Oates is one of America’s most versatile and prolific writers.

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