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James Kaplan

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JAMES KAPLAN has been writing about people and ideas in business and popular culture, as well as noted fiction (Best American Short Stories) , for over three decades. His essays and reviews, as well as more than a hundred major profiles of figures ranging from Madonna to Helen Gurley Brown, Calvin Klein to John Updike, Miles Davis to Meryl Streep, and Arthur Miller to Larry David, have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. His first novel, Pearl's Progress, was published by Knopf in 1989. His nonfiction portrait of John F. Kennedy...

Sloane Crosley

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SLOANE CROSLEY is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collections "I Was Told There'd Be Cake," a 2009 The Thurber Prize finalist and "How Did You Get This Number" as well as "Look Alive Out There," a 2019 Thurber Prize finalist. Her debut novel, "The Clasp," was a national bestseller and has been optioned for film by Universal Pictures. She lives in New York City.