David Epstein has reported for ProPublica, Sports Illustrated, and This American Life. His new book is Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.

Michael Pollan writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker and is the author of nine books. His latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transce

Casey Cep has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic. She is the author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee.

Mark Adams is the author of Mr. America and Turn Right at Machu Picchu. His latest book is Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier.

Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and a co-host of Political Gabfest. Her latest book is Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.

Sloane Crosley is the author of "I Was Told There’d Be Cake" and "How Did You Get This Number." Her latest essay collection is "Look Alive Out There."

Christine Kenneally has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Monthly. Her 2018 Buzzfeed article, “The Ghosts of the Orphanage,” was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

David Wallace-Wells is the deputy editor of New York and the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.

Linda Villarosa directs the journalism program at the City College of New York, and is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Her article "Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis" was one of Longform's Top Ten o

Michael Lewis is the author of several bestselling books and the host of the podcast Against the Rules.

Hillary Frank is the creator of The Longest Shortest Time podcast and the author of Weird Parenting Wins.

Casey Newton covers Silicon Valley for The Verge and writes The Interface newsletter.

Wesley Morris is a critic at large for The New York Times, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the co-host of Still Processing.

Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, is the author of "The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal."

Kiese Laymon is the author of How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and Heavy: An American Memoir.

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker. His latest book is "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"

Rosecrans Baldwin is a writer and regular contributor to GQ. His latest novel is "The Last Kid Left"

Christie Aschwanden is a freelance science writer. Her latest book is "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery."

Lydia Polgreen is the editor in chief of HuffPost.

Thomas Morton is a writer and former contributing editor for Vice.

David Grann is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book is "The White Darkness."

Tommy Tomlinson, a former newspaper columnist, is the host of Southbound podcast. His new book is The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.

Julie Snyder, one of the first producers at This American Life, is the co-creator of Serial and S-Town.

Doug Bock Clark has written for GQ, Wired, and The New Yorker. His new book is The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life.

Lizzie Johnson covers wildfires for the San Francisco Chronicle.