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These Things I Loved in 2024 Will Change Your Life. And yes, once again, this post is terribly, if not terrifically, belated, but as terrible as this year ended—and it wasn’t so great before that, there were still things to love and how can sharing such things ever be too belated? They can't and we know that. There is also glorious returning guest blogger Myles Tanzer. Which is nice. So, do take a moment to rejoice and enjoy. And not necessarily in that order.

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I always write that I believe I'll have some new kind of introduction to this post, yet it has seemed craven in recent years to celebrate anything during the then heights of the pandemic, strife across the globe, isolation, and so many lives lost and destroyed. And now? More of the same I suppose. The world is rife with sadness, horror, and fear, and yet we create and consume art and we try to figure out how to get through. So, I'm back with this post, I have to be, and I'm once again joined by the delightful guest blogger, consummate pop culture consumer, and son extraordinaire Myles Tanzer. As it has been then, and God-willing, always will be. Just better.

Let's begin.

Memoirs that sing, and hurt, and explore trauma, death, nostalgia, pop culture, love, literature, the present, past and future, and everything in between.

We’re Live in 5 / Jeff Margolis & The Requirement of Grief / Danielle Ariano

Essay collections that spoke to me and will speak to you that had some quite memoir-like qualities.

How to Live Like Li Po in Pittsburgh / Dave Newman, The Wet Wound / Maddie Norris, The Quitters / Carlo Mattos

Books I read for reasons of craft, inspiration, and delight—which could also serve as memoirs.

Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy is The Bow / Steve Almond

Nonfiction work that is academic, definitely, sort of memoir-like, and by an old friend from college.

The Peer Effect / Syed Ali

Books that are nonfiction, sort of memoir-like, and bonkers engaging (by a former Tortoise author no less, and more on the Tortoise tip below).

To Whom it May Concern / Dmitry Samarov

Poetry that’s memoir-like, heartbreaking, and achingly beautiful.

Age of Forgiveness / Caleb Curtiss

All the rest of the poetry, of which I never read enough of, though did somewhat better with this year.

Yaguareté White / Diego Baez & Pop Culture Poetry / Michael Tager

A book about poets, that is not quite poetry, nor quite biography, but something more experimental & all William Walsh.

The Poets / William Walsh

Terrific novels steeped in mystery & dread, wholly engaging and speaking to the times we live in.

Sugar on the Bones / Joe R. Landsdale, [NSFW] / David Scott Hay, I Keep My Visions to Myself / Mallory Smart, In The Sight / Tobias Carroll, Sleeping with Friends / Emily Schultz

Kick-ass short story collections by kick ass writers who, you know, kick ass.

Below the Falls / Ross McMeekin, The Forest for the Trees / Mathieu Cailler, I Can Outdance Jesus / Willie Davis

Novels by Tortoise authors who are both wonderful and substantive, the authors and the books.

The Quail Who Wears The Shirt / Jeremy T. Wilson & Nothing’s Ever the Same / Cyn Vargas

A novel by a former Tortoise author who is also both wonderful and substantive, and again, the author and the books.

A Sound of a Thousand Stars / Rachel Robbins

A great novel by a former Tortoise author who I was honored to blurb this past year.

The Hotel Egypt / Stuart M. Ross & Sorry Men / Daniel Bird

Fantastic books written by fantastic authors and friends whose lives and work I intersected with this year in all sorts of literary ways.

The Great Gimmelmans / Lee Matthew Goldberg, I Blame Myself But Also You / Spencer Fleury, A Gorgeous Excitement / Cynthia Weiner, Twilight of the Gods / Kurt Baumeister (to be released, and gloriously at that, on March 11th)

The movies I re-watched, because well, Noah Tanzer or Myles Tanzer and you know, children.

The Warriors & Pretty in Pink

The 2023 movies I caught-up just after the 2023 list dropped, both of which somehow starred Sandra Hüller, and both of which were absorbing and disturbing all at once.

Anatomy of a Fall & Zone of Interest

The movies I finally watched, because I don’t know why, which starred Ryan Gosling.

The Nice Guys

The movie I watched with the Debra Pritzker Tanzer that starred Ryan Gosling that should have been more loved I’d suggest.

The Fall Guy

The movie that starred the quite hunky Glen Powell and received some love, more than The Fall Guy, but way not enough I’d suggest.

Hit Man

Movies I missed in 2023 and caught up with, and while there was really only one this past year and people seemed to expect more, it starred the terrific Cailee Spaney.

Priscilla

The also terrific Cailee Spaney movie, Cailee being the terrific part (though big props to the Kirsten Dunst as well), that came out in 2024 that people definitely expected more from.

Civil War

Rom-Coms (and / or holiday movies), really not great.

Prom Dates, Which Brings Me to You

Rom-Coms (and / or holiday movies), somewhat better (though only somewhat).

Sweethearts

Rom-Coms (and / or holiday movies), mostly better.

Am I OK? & Players

Not Rom-Coms (and / or holiday movies), though possessing much rom and / or com, and not bad at all.

Challengers & Babes

And a most definite not Rom-Com, that spent time messing with the tropes of both, and then became something else entirely, a ghost story maybe, which hit hard regardless.

All of Us Strangers

Inexplicably the only superhero movie I watched all year—and it was better than fine.

Deadpool & Wolverine

The first animated movie I watched in some time and it was much better than fine.

Inside Out 2

Summer action movies, good enough or just enough.

Were there any? Not a movie title, a question.

Action movies in general that were good enough (though no Die Hard).

Carry On

And a most unexpected action movie, quite engaging and quite well done.

Rebel Ridge

The mostly fine, sometimes good movies that were still mostly fine movies, because yeah, movies.

Between the Temples, I Used to Be Funny, Drive-Away Dolls

The documentaries I watched and really enjoyed for varying reasons.

The Greatest Night in Pop, Don’t Turn Your Back on Friday Night, Will & Harper

The almost really good movies I was more than happy enough to see because I'll never see enough movies to satisfy my movie Jones regardless.

Woman of the Hour, Thelma, Saturday Night

The well-crafted Timothée Chalamet movie I liked.

Dune 2

The well-crafted Timothée Chalamet I liked more.

A Complete Unknown

Well-crafted movies I really liked.

His Three Daughters, My Old Ass, Dìdi, The Last Showgirl, Wicked, The Substance, Conclave

The best crafted movies of the year that weren't quite my favorite movie of the year.

We Grown Now, Sing Sing, A Real Pain

The quite well-crafted & visually stunning movies that may arguably be the best movie of the year.

The Brutalist & The Nickel Boys

But the movie that ultimately, probably, moved me the most in a year when I didn't quite wholly or truly fall in love with anything.

Anora

The movie I just didn’t quite love and don’t know what to say about now, though maybe yikes, which doesn’t seem strong enough, while still loving Zoë Saldaña’s performance.

Emilia Pérez

New music which I continued to do a way better job of finding this year, mostly thank you to the Apple Music account we added in 2021 (which is not a plug, just a reality), as well as my children, that I was mostly really happy with, starting with musicians I already listened to.

James & Nikki: A Conversation / Rhymefest, Cowboy Carter / Beyoncé, F-1 Trillion / Post Malone, Midnight Gasoline / Jamey Johnson, The Crossroads / Cordae, CHROMAKOPIA / Tyler, The Creator, The Avett Brothers / The Avett Brothers, The Great American Bar Scene / Zach Bryan, Leon / Leon Bridges, GNX / Kendrick Lamar

Music and artists quite new to me that I really loved. Which includes loads of country & alt-country (is that still a thing), rap, and lots of electronic. And yes, there was a lot of it.

Magda / Donato Dozzy, Dreamfear / Boy, Sent From Above / Burial, Back Then I Didn't But Now I Do / Jonny From Space, Psykos / Yung Lean & Bladee, Bright Future / Adrianne Lenker, Tigers Blood / Waxahatchee, Bite Down / Rosali, Akoma / Jlin, Silence is Loud / Nia Archives, I'm Doing It Again Baby / girl in red, ISS010 / Skee Mask, The Past is Still Alive / Hurray for the Riff Raff, Carousel From Hell / LustSickPuppy, Chapultepec / LAO, Snake / Nikki Hair, Breathe... / Godspeed, Grush / u-Ziq, A Dog's Chance / POLO PERKS <3 <3 <3, AyooLii & FearDorian, When I'm Called / Jake Xerxes Fussell, Songs for Sinners Saints / Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival, One Day / Loidis, Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola / Various Artists, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU / JPEGMafia, Veena / Heems, Cascade / Floating Points, Dunya / Mustafa, Animals Only / BabyChiefDoit, No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead / Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Two Shell / Two Shell, Bexaco y Rico / Mediopicky, Honey Dijon / DJ - Kicks, Estrella / Star Bandz, Desde Los Oidos De Un Sapo / Lechuga Zafiro, Dreamstate / Kelly Lee Owens, Alligators Never Bite / Doechii

Music I got to listen to live, it was not enough, though I did see the Ike Reilly, yup.

Jason Isbell @ The Salt Shed & The Ike Reilly Assassination @ Metro (w/ the Debbie Pritzker Tanzer)

The one Harlan Coben television show we watched, the Debbie Pritzker Tanzer and I, because we always have to watch at least one—quality be damned.

Fool Me Once

Great (or nearly great) television shows where the second season was as good and at times even better than the first one.

This Fool & Shrinking

Good (or nearly good) television shows where the second season was not as good as the first one and still fine.

The After Party

Great (or nearly great) television shows where the third season maintained the goodness and at times the excellence.

Abbott Elementary, Hacks, Heartstopper

Great (or nearly great) television shows where the third season dipped some and was still quite enjoyable.

The Bear

The only show of which I’m aware I watched the fourth season of and it was just as bonkers as ever—even if not quite as great as its earlier seasons.

The Boys

Shows that came back really strong and were quite good and quite fun too, though fun doesn’t quite seem like the right word for it.

True Detective: Night Country & Fargo, Season 5

Shows I mostly caught-up on and wow, so much fun, which is definitely the right word for it.

Industry

Television shows that ended, that were fun, sometimes exceptional, and I'm going to miss watching.

I’m not sure there were any this past year. A statement, not a question.

Limited run shows, only okay.

Alice & Jack & Apples Never Fall,

Limited run shows that were just fun and absorbing.

One Day

Limited run shows, surprisingly addictive.

Baby Reindeer

American crime shows, not bad, not great.

Presumed Innocent

American crime shows good.

Bad Monkey

American crime shows good and absorbing.

Under the Bridge

American true crime shows, awfully absorbing.

Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini & American Nightmare

Australian crime shows, awfully fun.

Deadloch

British crime shows, not bad.

Criminal Record & After the Flood

New shows, not terrible, and I watched anyway.

Maxton Hall

New shows, mostly good (or good enough).

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

New shows, good.

Fallout, English Teacher, Agatha All Along, A Man on The Inside

New shows that were shockingly good and just shocking.

Blue Eye Samurai

And the new show, way more fun than it should have been.

Nobody Wants This

Also, Cobra Kai, which just won’t go away and we don’t want it to anyway.

Cobra Kai, Season Six, Part 2

Live theater, again, though only one show, again, which is the same as 2023.

Little Bear Ridge Road @ Steppenwolf Theatre (w/ the Debra Pritzker Tanzer & Myles Tanzer)

There was also a live drag show I attended with the Myles Tanzer and it was sublime.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Live @ Chicago Theater

Art exhibits, slightly more than 2023, some outside Chicago, and some of my favorite artists, which is nice.

Ed Ruscha: Now Then | LACMA (2x), Keith Haring: Art is for Everyone | Walker Art Center, Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Works” | Art Institute of Chicago, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love | The Broad, Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me | Art Institute of Chicago

The podcasts I still listen to again and again, if sometimes inconsistently at that and maybe less regularly than usual, while adding nothing new.

WTF with Marc Maron, Other People with Brad Listi, The Slate Culture Gabfest

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And Now for the Myles Tanzer...

The Ketchup Movies That I Loved/Really Liked

Brokeback Mountain, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Dead Poets Society, Ex Machina, The Nice Guys, Paris Is Burning, Shithouse, Tangerina, Whiplash

Easily the Worst Movie of the Year

A Family Affair

Close to the Worst Movie of the Year

Incoming, Irish Wish, Our Little Secret, Players

The Honorary Movie Based on a Fanfiction Movie of the Year

The Idea of You

The Honorary Superhero Movie of the Year

Deadpool & Wolverine

The Honorary Christmas Day Movie of the Year

A Complete Unknown

Late-Night Solo Watches

How to Have Sex, Late Night with the Devil, Música, Trap, Turtles All the Way Down, Woman of the Hour

I Get the Hype and the Love, but a Tad too Artsy for Me :3

Emilia Pérez, I Saw the TV Glow, Nosferatu, Your Monster

Most HUH?!/Confusing Movies of the Year

Caddo Lake, The Greatest Hits, It’s What’s Inside, Love Lies Bleeding

Maybe This Is the Challengers of 1991 Coming-of-Age Comedies that Take Place During the Summer (if you can’t tell I had to make this category up to include this movie)

Snack Shack

Cinematic Events That Also Have the Best Scores of the Year

Challengers, Dune: Part Two

Best ‘Barbenheimer’ Movie of the Year

Fall Guy

Tanzer Family Night Category

Hit Man, Sweethearts, Thelma

The Ben Tanzer Category (I couldn’t think of a category for them, but I did watch all of them with Dad)

Am I OK?, I Used to Be Funny, Prom Dates, A Real Pain, Rebel Ridge

SO JEALOUS I COULDN’T GO TO THE PREMIERE BECAUSE I WAS IN SCHOOL

Babes

Great Movies That Are Even Greater Because of the Bomb Ensemble

Conclave, Saturday Night

Solo-Trips to the Theatre

Civil War, The Wild Robot

The Disappoints of the Year

Babygirl, Blitz, Mean Girls

The Biggest Surprise of the Year

Carry-On, My Old Ass

Best Horror Movies of the Year, BY FAR

Longlegs, The Substance

Movies That Gave All the Feels

Inside Out 2, We Live in Time, Will & Harper

Most Underrated Movies of the Year… That Also Gave Me All the Feels

Dìdi, His Three Daughters, Sing Sing

Close to Best Movie of the Year, but Easily the Best Experience of the Year

Wicked

The Best Movie of the Year

Anora

The Ketchup Shows

Friday Night Lights, Girls, How to Get Away with Murder, Industry, Severance

Shows Where Nicola Coughlan Stole the Show

Big Mood (Season 1), Bridgerton (Season 3)

Round of Applause of Australian TV

Heartbreak High (Season 2)

Mini Series About Crimes >>> Mini Series Not About Crimes

True Detective (Night Country: Season 4), Under the Bridge

Yeah, I Watched and I Am Not Ashamed of It.

Law & Order: SVU (Season 26), Pretty Little Liars (Summer School: Season 2), Selling Sunset (Season 8)

Most Disappointing Seasons After Stellar Great Ones

Bad Sisters (Season 2), The Bear (Season 3)

Best Docuseries of the Year… I Only Watched One

America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Best Surprises of the Year

Bad Monkey (Season 1), English Teacher (Season 1), Extraordinary (Season 2), Fallout (Season 1), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Season 1), One Day, St. Denis Medical (Season 1)

Do British Singles on a ‘Love Experiment’ Make the Worst Reality TV? Yes.

Love Is Blind: UK (Season 1)

Do ‘Mormon’ Women Make the Best Reality TV? Yes.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (Season 5), The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (Season 1)

Yet Another Year Where RuPaul and Drag Race Took Over My Life

Canada’s Drag Race (Season 5), Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. The World (Season 2), RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 16), RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (Season 9), RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars (Season 1), RuPaul’s Drag Race Live Untucked (Season 1), RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (Season 6), RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs the World (Season 2)

The Shows That Will Continually Gobble, Eat, and Devour

Abbott Elementary (Seasons 3 and 4), The Boys (Season 4), Heartstopper (Season 3)

The Best New Shows of the Year

Agatha All Along (Season 1), High Potential (Season 1), Nobody Wants This (Season 1),

Easily the Best Shows of the Year

Baby Reindeer, Hacks (Season 3), Shrinking (Season 2)

Listened To Once, but Now I Only Listen to a Couple of Songs

Changes All The Time (James Bay), Don’t Forget Me (Maggie Rogers), Dopamine (Normani), God Said No (Omara Apollo), Imaginal Disk (Magdalena Bay), MEGAN (Megan Thee Stallion), The Secret of Us (Gracie Abrams), Something To Give Each Other (Troye Sivan), What A Devastating Turn of Events (Rachel Chinouriri)

I Get Triggered Listening to This, if you know you know

The Great American Bar Scene (Zach Bryan)

Don’t Look at Me and I Hate to Say It, but Eh

Deeper Well (Kacey Musgraves), Radical Optimism (Dua Lipa), THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT/: THE ANTHOLOGY (Taylor Swift)

About Damn Time… and Didn’t Disappoint

SOS DELUXE: LANA (SZA)

Stop What You’re Doing and Go Listen

Access All Areas (FLO), Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin (Suki Waterhouse), Trouble in Paradise (Chloë)

Worst Movie Soundtrack of the Year

Mean Girls: Music From The Motion Picture (Movie Cast)

Best Movie Soundtrack of the Year

Wicked: The Soundtrack (Movie Cast)

Best Albums of the Year

Alligator Bites Never Heal (Doechii), BRAT (Charli xcx), eternal sunshine (Ariana Grade), Short n’ Sweet (Sabrina Carpenter)

Like Come On Now

COWBOY CARTER (Beyoncé)

Did I Only Go to Concerts with Roya Lippe? Yes <3

RAYE (Lollapalooza Aftershow at Thalia Hall), Charli xcx & Troye Sivan (Sweat at United Center), Suki Waterhouse (The Sparklemuffin Tour at The Salt Shed)

‘Theatre Shows’ I Saw with Dad

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Live (at The Chicago Theatre)

I GOT TO SEE LAURIE METCALF IN A PLAY… with Mom and Dad

Little Bear Ridge Road (at Steppenwolf)

Abby Jimenez Books I Read This Year

Just for the Summer, Part of Your World, Yours Truly

Emily Henry Books I Read This Year

Beach Read, Book Lovers, Funny Story, Happy Place, People We Meet on Vacation

Steven Rowley Books I Read This Year

The Guncle, The Guncle Abroad

The Book That Destroyed Me This Year

History Is All You Left Me (by Adam Silvera)

Short Stories/Collections I Read This Year

Black Friend: Essays (by Ziwe), Other People We Married (by Emma Straub)

The Book I Reread This Year After Watching the Netflix Original That Just So Happens to Be Based On a Wattpad Story…

My Life with the Walter Boys (by Ali Novak)

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Most finally, there are many people to thank for making this a good year (or just rule in general) in spite of all that has been going on and feels like it still will be. And I'm most definitely overlooking some, a lot maybe, and I apologize for that, but there you go.

Ryan W. Bradley, Steve Lafler, Lavinia Ludlow, Rob Funderburk, Greg Olear, John Barrios, Joseph G. Peterson, Michael Seidlinger, Gabino Iglesias, Adam Lawrence, Dave McNamara, Mike Smolarek, Beth Gilstrap, Duncan MacKenzie, Andrew Keating, Avner Landes, Matty Byloos, Michael Czyzniejewski, Ken Wohlrob, Mike Keren, Myles and Noah Tanzer, Leza Cantoral, David Masciotra, Clayton Smith, Bryanna Tartt, Alisha Bashaw, Mel Bosworth, Paul Cohen, Joshua Chaplinksy, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Elizabeth Strauss Friedman, Dana Kaye, Todd Summar, Megan Stielstra, Hosho McCreesh, W. Todd Kaneko, Jim Warner, Mathieu Cailler, David S. Atkinson, Emory Easton, Debbie Pritzker, Steve Eisner, Diego Báez, BL Pawelek, Mallory Smart, James Yates, Larry Rosen, Kristin Fouquet, Jacob Budenz, Lisa Ellen Niver, Clayton Smith, Seth Berg, Maggie Manoyan, Elizabeth Coffey, Mark Wish, Amber Sparks, James Tate Hill, Elizabeth Crane, Mike McClelland-Williamson, Lori Jakiela, Kurt Baumeister, Maureen Aitken, Robert Vaughan, Jerry Stahl, Gregory L. Norris, Michael Gillan Maxwell, Meg Tuite, Chris Linkenbach, Robert Duffer, Kathy Haueisen, Coco Picard, Brian Alan Ellis, Nat Kimber, Keir Graff, Luke Jerod Kummer, Emma Irving, Diego Jackson Bliss, Joanna Topor MacKenzie, Jeff Linkenbach, Matt Rowan, Mike DeCapite, Jacob S. Knabb, Jason Behrends, Andrew DeYoung, Jason Pettus, Joanna C. Valente, Moeses Soulright, Anthony Michael Morena, Brad Wolff, Amber Griffith, Bob Hartley, Shifra Malka, Joanna Shroeder, Barbara Newman, Leah Jones, Johnny Misfit, Greg Gerding, Paul Lamb, Trish McDonald, Victor David Giron, The Book Cellar, Gretchen Kalwinski, Michael Paige Glover, Jennifer Banash, Bill O'Neill, City Lit Books, Marilyn Atlas, Cynthia Weiner, Matt Fitzpatrick, Art Edwards, Judith Tanzer, Kimberly Ann Southwick, Erika T. Wurth, Leesa Cross-Smith, Brian Gresko, Beth Splaine, Garret Schuelke, Shaindel Beers, Chris L. Terry, Kara Vernor, Adam Tanzer, Patricia Ann McNair, Glen Binger, Ali Gray, Sean Beaudoin, Sean H. Doyle, JJ Starr, Ken Sherman, Corey Best, John Reed, Jerry Brennan, Serena Makofsky, Callie Nelson, Dan Conway, Lauren Becker, A Novel Idea, David Legere, Marisa Siegel, Andrew Farkas, Brad Listi, Robert James Russell, Jenny Bhatt, Brian Gresko, Lori Hettler, Sharyn Skeeter, Tobias Carroll, Leah Angstman, Christian Winn, Angelique Pesce, Charita Cole Brown, Brad King, Spencer Dew, Glen Binger, Neile Parisi, Steve Karas, Aubrey Cox Warner, Sarina Prabasi, Amanda Headlee, Barry Graham, Jennifer Steele, P&T Knitwear, Wendy C. Ortiz, Dave Newman, Jeremy T. Wilson, Donald Quist, Christine Maul Rice, D. Foy, Ben Drevlow, JH Palmer, Cari Luna, Amber Griffin, Shawn Henry, Elaine Soloway, Rachel Slotnick, Judith Krummeck, Michael Tager, Behn Reza, Largehearted Boy, Cyn Vargas, Colin Hosten, Anne Poirier, Tim Drown, Greg Santos, Joe Starr, Village Well, Joe Thompson, Howard Fox, Allison Joseph, Alan Heathcock, Tony Brunelli, Valerie Roche, Christina Olson, Tara Fishler, Keith Lesmeister, Sara Lippmann, Spencer Fleury, Grace Agnew, Mikaela Shea Fowler, Ariel Rudolph, Kyler Bingham, Giano Cromley, Zoe Zolbrod, Dawn Hogan, Kali VanBaale, Tom Williams, Jennifer Pastiloff, Joshua Mohr, Jackson Bliss, Deborah Greenhut, Neil Elman, Steph Patton, Amy Danzer, Patrick Wensink, Nicholas Barron, Exile in Bookville, Daniel C. Nester, Maria Price, Robert Tomaino, Ashley Marie Farmer, Paul Lamb, Stuart Ross, Steph Rogers, Chauncey Fitzsimmons, Alice Kaltman, Paul Cohen, Kacy Tellesen, Susan Messing, Rick Kogan, Amy Guth, Khloe Karova, Jeff Pfaller, Emily Schultz, Shaindel Beers, Christine Eberle, Volumes Bookcafe, Susan Messing, Jonathan Evison, Leland Cheuk, Rebecca George, Robert James Russell, Donald G. Evans, Carla Ritz, Matt Covert, Christina Beauchemin, Davis Schneiderman, Ray Charbonneau, Sam Slaughter, Gina Frangello, Steph Post, Rachel Hyman, Nick Ostdick, Len Kuntz, Pete Anderson, Terry Hiner, Alicia Del Real, Ryan Elliott Smith, Pam Hoadley, the Tomaloff's, Paula Bomer, Brandon Will, Melissa Faliveno, J. Bradley, Jason Fisk, Gint Aras, Yogi Roth, Eric Spitznagle, Beth Gilstrap, Charles Rubner, Ryan Ridge, Sara Thompson, Lee L. Krecklow, Keidra Chaney, Christopher Bowen, Liz Mason, Chris Tarry, David Olimpio, Jessica Kashiwabara, Christoph Paul, Ines Bellina, Jon Papernick