A Critical Mass of Writers Mobilizes on Atlanta

As the NBCC's petition to protest the AJC's removal of the book editor job nears 6,000 signatories, and readers, local booksellers, and AJC subscribers continue to express their support for literary coverage in Atlanta, writers continue to show their support. Here are a few of their names:

Norman Rush, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, Monica Ali, Harlan Ellison, Richard Ford, Richard Powers, Dennis Cooper (pictured above), Gish Jen, David Lodge, Anne Applebaum, Yann Martel, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jack Miles, Nathan McCall (pictured above) Sara Paretsky, Tracy Kidder, Julia Glass, Steve Yarbrough, Judith Thurman, Fay Weldon, Colm Toibin, Mohsin Hamid, Norris Church Mailer, David Mitchell, Reynolds Price, Allan Gurganus, Kim Addonzio, Chris Abani, Judith Freeman, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Hisham Matar, Clay Risen, Nicholas Christopher, Andrew Hudgins, Naemm Murr, Ben Fountain, Ken Foster, Melissa Bank, Erik Reese, Hester Kaplan, Denise Hamilton, Audrey Niffenberger, Kathryn Harrison, Louis D. Rubin, Adam Braver, Don Lee, Julie Otsuka, George Garrett, Chase Twichell, Anne Fadiman, George Saunders, Kevin Young, Gary Shteyngart, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, Adam Haslett, Ali Smith, Stuart Kelly, Andrew O'Hagan. Ariel Dorfman, Bobbie Ann Mason, Connie May Fowler, Jim Dwyer, Anthony Swofford, Larry Dark, Craig Unger, Whitney Terrell, Maureen Corrigan, Chimamanda Adichie, Allan Kornblum, Emily Barton, David Anthony Durham, Michael Upchurch, Marisa Silver, Cathleen Schine, Christopher Coake, Sean Wilsey, Karen Bender, Pam Durban, Molly Giles, Alafair Burke, Laura Lippman, Lorraine Adams, Ammiel Alcalay, Arthur Phillips, Kenneth W. Davis, Michael Lowenthal, Karen Spears Zacharias, Michael Ryan, Debra Spark, Silas House, Joshilyn Jackson, Sheri Joseph, C.J. Box, Billy Collins, Meghan O’Rourke, Lisa Alther, Edward Hirsch, Herbert Leibowitz, Peter Kurth, Meg Wolitzer, Joshua Ferris, John Wray, Carolyn See, Brad Land, Stephen Burt, Joseph Skibell, Robert Crais, Clyde Edgerton, Joshua Clark, Terese Svoboda, Aliki Barnstone, Paula L. Woods, Joan Acocella, Tina McElroy Ansa, Lee K. Abbott, Benjamin Kunkel, Michael Parker, D.T. Max, Tayari Jones, Peter D. Kramer, Edwidge Danticat, Tom Barbash, Kelly Link, J. Peder Zane, Victoria Glendenning, Christine Schutt, Aaron Hamburger, Jan Burke, Victor LaValle, George Szirtes, David Liss, Chris Offutt, Donald Harrington, Hettie Jonies, Iain Pears, Madison Smartt Bell, Elizabeth Graver, Marina Warner, Jeremiah Healy, Alan Shapiro, Marie Arana, Heidi Julavits, Alan Cheuse, Helen Schulman, Diana Abu-Jabar, Jill McCorkle, Jim Shepard, Lawrence Joseph, Hannah Tinti, Peter Cameron, A.M. Homes, Clyde Edgerton, Matthew Klam, Chris Bohjalian, Darin Strauss, Mark Winegardner, Emily Raboteau, Francine Prose, Alaa Al Aswany, Adam Shatz, Tova Mirvis, Martha Southgate, Roxana Robinson, Alix Ohlin, Elissa Schappell, Richard Bausch, Lynn Tillman, James Lee Burke, Denis Lehane, Sheri Holman, Jennifer Gilmore, Pete Duval, Todd Gitlin, Karen Joy Fowler, Andrew Solomon, Joanna Hershon, Margot Livesy, Julie Phillips, Thrity Umrigar, Troy Jollimore, Robert Draper, Martha Cooley, William Logan, Carol Anshaw, Craig Nova, Rick Perlstein, Robert Anthony Siegel, Laurie Stone, Ben Marcus, Victoria Redel, Alan Cheuse, Benjamin Lytal, Clay Reynolds, Po Bronson, Susan Richards Shreve, Karen Abbott, Kate Christensen, Roland Merullo, Philip Caputo, Scott Heim, Shari Goldhagen, H.W.Brands, John Dufresne, Ron Rash, Melissa Fay Greene

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