Alison Gopnik

Professor & World Leader in Children's Learning and Development

Terence Winter

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"

Max Brooks

Author of "The Zombie Survival Guide" & "World War Z"

Paul Auster

American Author

David Lynch

American Filmmaker, Television Director and Musician; "The Elephant Man" and "Blue Velvet"

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an award-winning French actress, artist and dancer.

Ashley Kahn

Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist, and producer, as well as a regular commentator on NPR's Morning Edition.

Ken Kalfus

Author of the New Novel, "Equilateral," About the Centuries-Old Quest for Life on Other Planets

Amanda Walsh

Amanda has starred as a series regular in the ABC comedy Sons and Daughters and appeared on the big screen in films such as Disturbia and The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Charles Bock

Best-selling Author

James Vincent McMorrow

Irish Folk Singer-Songwriter

Jill McCorkle

Short Story Writer & Novelist

Cassandra Clare

Author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal & Publishers Weekly Bestselling "Mortal Instruments" Series

David Hayter

Canadian-American voice and screen actor and screenwriter known for writing the screenplay for X-Men and co-writing the screenplay for The Scorpion King and X2.

John Lee Hancock

Screenwriter, Film Director & Producer; Best Known for "The Rookie" and "The Blind Side"

Gregory Alan Isakov

South African Indie-Folk Singer-Songwriter

Richard Grossman

Richard Grossman is an award-winning novelist and poet. Breeze Avenue— his 3,000,000-page work conceived as a literary analog of cosmic consciousness— is forthcoming in 2015.

KRS-One

Rapper, Author & Activist

The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument

Cameron Esposito

Stand-Up Comic, Actor & Writer Known for "Take Me As Your Wife" & the "Queery" Podcast