presented by
The 2010 Tournament of Books Judges
Sam Anderson is a book critic at New York magazine.
Rosecrans Baldwin is a founding editor of TMN. His first novel, You Lost Me There, will be published in August 2010 by Riverhead Books.
Alex Balk is a co-founder of The Awl.
Nic Brown’s short story collection, Floodmarkers, was published in 2009 and selected as an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times book review. His first novel, Doubles, will be published in July 2010. His fiction has appeared in the Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among other publications.
Alexander Chee is the author of Edinburgh. He is the Visiting Writer at Amherst College.
Jane Ciabattari is president of the National Book Critics Circle, a founding blogger on Critical Mass, and author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire. Her work has appeared in Bookforum, npr.org, the Guardian online, the Daily Beast, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, among others. Recent short stories are online at KGB Bar Lit, Verbsap, Literary Mama, Lost Magazine, and Fictionaut (and on her website).
Meave Gallagher is a contributing editor at TMN and a founding editor of Vegansaurus. She lives in California.
David Gutowski runs the popular music and culture blog Largehearted Boy.
Jessica Francis Kane is a contributing writer for TMN. Her first novel, The Report, will be published in September 2010 by Graywolf. Her first book, Bending Heaven: Stories, was published in the U.S. and the U.K. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including McSweeney’s and Virginia Quarterly Review, and has been serialized on BBC radio. She lives in New York with her husband and their two children.
Carolyn Kellogg is a critic and blogger for the Los Angeles Times.
Jason Kottke blogs at kottke.org. He lives in New York City.
C. Max Magee created and edits The Millions. He has appeared on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning” and has written for Poets and Writers, The Rumpus, and various other online and dead-tree publications. He and his wife live in Philadelphia.
TMN managing editor Kate Ortega is an editor at the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Brooklyn.
Julie Powell is the author of Julie & Julia and Cleaving.
Andrew W.K. is a musician, motivational speaker, and party maker.
Andrew Womack is a founding editor of TMN.
Molly Young is a blogger and a contributor to n+1.