KEVIN BAKER, FEATURED WRITER
Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist. He is the coauthor of Reggie Jackson’s Becoming Mr. October, and the author of the novel Paradise Alley, among others. His work has appeared in Harper’s, where he is also a contributing editor, New York Observer, The New York Times, and The New Republic. Raised in Rockport, Mass., he is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City. His latest book is The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City.

DARIN STRAUSS, MODERATOR
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, an American Library award, and numerous other prizes, DARIN STRAUSS is the author, most recently of The Queen of Tuesday (August 2020), a Washington Post and Millions best book of the year, and a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Fiction. He’s also the author of the bestselling novels Chang & Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than It Hurts You, the NBCC-winning memoir Half a Life, and a bestselling comic-book series, Olivia Twist. These have been New York Times Notable Books; and Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and NPR Best Books of the Year, among others.

Strauss has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries. In addition, Darin has collaborated on screenplays with Gary Oldman and Julie Taymor, and is a Clinical Professor of Fiction at New York University.