Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (born June 25, 1956) is an American author and the "Chef-at-Large" of Brasserie Les Halles, based in New York City with locations in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C.. Bourdain is also host of the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
A performance artist, musician, writer, actress, and film director. She is known for her works including her film "Me and You and Everyone We Know", her book No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, and her ongoing interactive project, Learning to Love You More, which is scheduled to be published in a book in late 2007.
Peter Lamborn Wilson (born New York, 1945) is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, perhaps best known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based on a historical review of pirate utopias. He sometimes writes under the name Hakim Bey. The pseudonym may or may not have been a name-of-convenience or collective pseudonym used by other radical writers since the 1970s and is a combination of the Arabic word for 'wise man' and a last name common in the Moorish Science Temple. Bey, originally a Turkic word for "chieftain," traditionally applied to the leaders of ...
Dan Cederholm is a web designer, author, and speaker living in Salem, Massachusetts. He's the founder of SimpleBits, a web design studio (and weblog), where he writes articles and commentary about the web, technology, and life. Cederholm is the author of two books on standards-based web design and CSS: Bulletproof Web Design and Web Standards Solutions. Dan also co-founded and runs the wine review webpage, Cork'd.
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. He has also written stories outside the horror genre, including the novella collection Different Seasons,The Green Mile, The Eyes of the Dragon, Hearts in Atlantis and his magnum opus The Dark ...
Jennifer Shahade, age 25 is a Women's Grandmaster, writer and two-time American Women's Chess Champion (2002, 2004).
Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport, was published in the fall of 2005 (Siles Press.) She is currently the web editor for Chess Life Magazine, the national publication of USCF.
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (IPA: [ˡpɑlənɪk])[1] (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in Pasco, Washington. The press release for his latest book, Rant, states he is now living in Vancouver, Washington. He is best known for the award-winning novel, "Fight Club," which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official website.
Tom is currently executive editor for CNET TV at CNET.com. He co-hosts the weekly call-in show CNET Live, as well as the podcasts Buzz Out Loud and The Real Deal. In addition, Tom hosts regular segments on CNET TV like Top 5, Insider Secrets, Quick Tips, and more. He also occasionally hosts Tips for Digital Living on TiVo. Finally, he is the host of the CNET TV show on G4TechTV Canada.
Tom served as executive producer for TechTV’s website until 2004. He started at TechTV as Producer of The Screen Savers website in 1999.
mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, performance ritual & hypermedia for the Macintosh, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. His hypermedia works reside at JOGLARS Crossmedia Broadcast (http://www.joglars.org/). Recent work has focused on activating online collaborative workspaces where writers & media artists can create collective digital works in a real time environment. Recent books include "Literature Nation" with Maria Damon, published by Potes and Poets Press and "advancienced snakespeared" published by extant.
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