Humor

Roz Chast

New Yorker Cartoonist
“Theories of Everything:
An Evening of Images & Conversation
With New Yorker Cartoonist, Roz Chast”

Billy Collins

United States Poet Laureate (2001–2003)

Firoozeh Dumas

Bestselling Author of Funny in Farsi:
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

& Laughing Without an Accent

Daniel Handler

Bestselling Author, (A.K.A Lemony Snicket)

Anne Lamott

Bestselling Author of Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions,
and Traveling Mercies

Fran Lebowitz

Author, Journalist & Social Observer

Alexander McCall Smith

Acclaimed & Beloved Scottish Bestselling Author:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series,
44 Scotland Street & The Sunday Philosophy Club Series

David Rakoff

Humorist, Essayist, Author,
and Contributor to Public Radio’s This American Life

Kay Ryan

United States Poet Laureate (2008-2010)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet

David Sedaris

NPR Humorist and Bestselling Author of Naked,
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
and
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Sarah Vowell

Bestselling Author of
The Wordy Shipmates & Assassination Vacation