VINTAGE BOOKS Creators & Guests

Leena Norms is a reader, presenter, producer, and a co-host of Banging Book Club Podcast.

Roddy Doyle is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of 11 novels, 8 children's books, 7 plays and screenplays, and many short stories.Several of Doyle's books have been made into films, beginning with "The Commitments" in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect.Doyle received the Booker Prize for his 1993 novel "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha."

Ian Russell McEwan is an English novelist and screenwriter.

James Lasdun is an author and poet.Lasdun's first book, the novel "Delirium Eclipse," was published in 1986. His reviews and essays have appeared in Harper's, Granta, the London Review of Books, The Guardian and The New Yorker. He co-wrote the film "Sunday," which was released in 1997, and which was based on his story Ate Menos or The Miracle. He also co-wrote the film "Signs and Wonders."

Dr. Clancy Martin is a philosopher and author. His work focuses on 19th century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, philosophy and literature, ethics & behavioral health, applied and professional ethics (especially bioethics) and philosophy of mind. Currently, he is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Missouri Kansas City and Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University. He is also a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.Martin has authored and edited more than a dozen books in philosophy, including "Love and Lies," "Honest Work," "Introducing Philosophy," "Ethics Across the Professions," and "The Philosophy of Deception." He has written more than a hundred articles, essays and short pieces on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Romanticism, the virtue of truthfulness, and many other subjects. He has translated works of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard from German and Danish, including a complete translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.Martin's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, Lapham's Quarterly, Ethics, The Believer, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, GQ, Esquire, Details, Elle, Travel + Leisure, Bookforum, Vice, and Men's Journal. He is a regular contributor to the literary annual NOON. His memoir, "How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind," was published in 2023.

Naoise Dolan is an author, best known for her debut novel, "Exciting Times," which was published in 2020.Dolan received her B.A. in English from Trinity College Dublin and her M.A. in Victorian Literature from Oxford University.

Yuval Noah Harari is an author, public intellectual, historian, and Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.