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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is a contributing editor of The Baffler. Her newest book is Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. Her memoir is Living with a Wild God.

Corey Pein

Corey Pein is a writer based in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon, and is the author of the book Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.    

George Scialabba

George Scialabba’s The Sealed Envelope will be published by Yale University Press next year.

Alana Massey

Alana Massey is a Brooklyn-based writer covering religion, women, and pop culture. She is a graduate of NYU and Yale Divinity School and is currently avoiding phone calls from both. She tweets at @alanamassey.

Dara Wier

Dara Wier’s new book is You Good Thing. She teaches for the University of Massachusetts’ MFA program for poets and writers.

Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe has been teaching for four decades. She manages to do this without living anywhere and liking only to be in bed.

David Graeber

David Graeber is a contributing editor of The Baffler. His book Debt: The First 5,000 Years is now out in paperback.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations emeritus at Boston University. He is currently the George McGovern fellow at Columbia University.

Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is a political analyst, historian, journalist and columnist for Salon. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal, authoring “The Tilting Yard” from 2008 to 2010, and a founding editor of The Baffler. He is the author of a number of books, most ...

John Summers

John Summers was the editor in chief of The Baffler from 2012-2016. 

Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier is the author of You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future? (Answer: Not you.)

Gabriel Zaid

Gabriel Zaid, poet and essayist, lives in Mexico City. Translations of his work appear in The Selected Poetry of Gabriel Zaid.