Ian Frazier, Featured Writer
Ian Frazier is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey. His most recent book is Paradise Bronx.

Boris Kachka, Moderator
Boris Kachka is a senior editor at The Atlantic, the former books editor of the Los Angeles Times, and a former longtime editor and writer at New York magazine. He is also the author of “Hothouse,” a cultural history of the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux; “Becoming a Veterinarian”; and “Becoming a Producer.”