Professor Karen Tei Yamashita 

Joan Didion, 

David Thomson 

Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity Viet Thanh Nguyen 

A. G. Lombardo 

Walter Mosley 

Harryette Mullen 

Luis J. Rodriguez 

Chester Himes, 

Hilton Als 

Myriam Gurba 

D J Waldie 

N. Scott Momaday 

Mike Davis, 

Robert Morrow 

Christopher Isherwood 

Raymond Chandler 

Eve Babitz, 

Holly Brubach 

Curt Gentry, 

Vincent Bugliosi 

Liska Jacobs 

Thomas Pynchon 

Octavia E. Butler, 

Gloria Steinem