Our final storyteller is #michaelcunningham who talks about how his job at a gay tiki bar inspired him to write great novels. #seriouslyentertaining

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First up, master of horror storytelling and comic book writer Clay McLeod Chapman!

Author of “Earth to Moon: A Memoir,”Moon Unit Zappa is up next! Join the livestream youtube.com/live/wQf9q-Tqy…

Bestselling author of “Leave the World Behind” Rumaan Alam kicks off the second half of our show: youtube.com/live/wQf9q-Tqy…

Our final speaker of the night, acclaimed historian Charles King: youtube.com/live/wQf9q-Tqy…

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Taking the stage: Jordyn Taylor, former magazine editor and the award-winning author of “The Paper Girl of Paris.” youtube.com/live/eH-1WNfUz…

Now up! Todd Almond - playwright, performer, and star of Broadway’s “Girl From the North Country” and “Gossip Girl” on MAX. youtube.com/live/eH-1WNfUz…

Taking the stage: Nora Lange - whose novel “Us Fools” is a Los Angeles Times best seller and whose writing has appeared in BOMB, Hazlitt, Joyland, American Short Fiction and LIT. youtube.com/live/eH-1WNfUz…

Wrapping up the night, Astead W. Herndon, national politics reporter for the New York Times, campaign reporter for Kamala Harris in 2019, and host of the NYTpolitics podcast “The Run-Up.” youtube.com/live/eH-1WNfUz…

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First up: Torey Akers, Brooklyn-based artist, writer, popular TikTok creator, and author of “Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto.”

Up next: Brittany Newell, contributor to Granta, N+1, The New York Times, and author of the novels “Oola” and the forthcoming “SoftCore.” Catch the show: youtube.com/live/i3pz83PGT…

Concluding our evening: Oliver Radclyffe, author of the monograph “Adult Human Male” and the recent memoir “Frighten the Horses.”

✨🎬Stream tonight’s show LIVE at 7PM EST for a night of enthralling original stories by four excelsior authors, all of whom will explore the theme "Fight No More". 🎙️Featuring Ada Calhoun, Carl Zimmer, Henry Lien, and Roya Marsh. youtube.com/live/_QwQmghb0…

Up first: Carl Zimmer—award-winning New York Times columnist and the author of 14 books about science, including, most recently: “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.”

And now: Ada Calhoun—author of “Crush,” “St. Marks Is Dead,” the New York Times bestseller “Why We Can’t Sleep,” and “Also a Poet” (which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post). youtube.com/live/_QwQmghb0…

🎙️Kicking off our second half: Roya Marsh—nationally recognized poet, performer, educator, activist, and author of the poetry collections “savings time,” and “dayliGht,” nominated for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. youtube.com/live/_QwQmghb0…

✨Closing the night: Henry Lien—four-time Nebula Award finalist and author of the “Peasprout Chen” fantasy series and the non-fiction book “Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling.”