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    Editor of Journal of the Plague Years (www.journaloftheplagueyears.ink.) Reporter, columnist, and essayist for magazines including GQ, Vogue, Salon.

  • Bill McKibben

    Author, educator, and environmental activist; a founder of 350.org and Third Act.

  • Lucian K. Truscott IV

    I am a writer who has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter.

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    Writer.

  • JP Sottile

    I was raised by a pack of wild televisions.

  • Brian Cullman

    Brian Cullman is west village editor of the Journal of the Plague Years. He has written for The Paris Review, Rolling Stone, Details, Creem, The Village Voice and other papers. He has 3 solo albums on Sunnyside Records.

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