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905 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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    Wayne Koestenbaum

    Wayne Koestenbaum: “The Cheerful Scapegoat” · 3 episodes

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    Wole Soyinka

    Wole Soyinka · Sep 2006

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    Yiyun Li

    Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End · 3 episodes

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    Zac Smith

    Zac Smith’s ‘Everything is Totally Fine,’ the book that reopened Tao Lin’s Muumuu House · Mar 2022

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    Abdellah Taïa

    Abdellah Taia · Apr 2009

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    Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon: The Making of Zombie Wars · 2 episodes

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    Alice McDermott

    Alice McDermott: “What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction” · 6 episodes

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    Amitav Ghosh

    Amitav Ghosh · 2 episodes

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    Arthur Sze

    Arthur Sze · Aug 1999

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    Ayad Akhtar

    Ayad Akhtar: American Dervish · Feb 2012

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    Ben Lerner

    Ben Lerner: The Topeka School · 2 episodes

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    Brad Gooch

    Brad Gooch: Rumi's Secret · 5 episodes

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    Brian Blanchfield

    Brian Blanchfield: Proxies · Mar 2016

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    Brian Evenson

    Brian Evenson · Feb 2007

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    Carl Phillips

    Carl Phillips · Jul 2001

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    Chang-rae Lee

    Chang-rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea · 3 episodes

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    Charles Yu

    Charles Yu: Interior Chinatown · 3 episodes

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    Cristina Rivera Garza
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    Daniel Mendelsohn

    Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones · Jan 2020

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    David Levithan

    David Levithan: The Lover's Dictionary · Jan 2011

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    Denis Johnson

    Denis Johnson · Mar 1992

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    Diane Williams

    Diane Williams: “How High? – That High” · 2 episodes

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    Dorothy Allison

    Dorothy Allison · 2 episodes

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    Edmund White

    Edmund White “A Saint from Texas” · 7 episodes

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    Frank Bidart

    Frank Bidart, Part II · 2 episodes

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    Gary Shteyngart

    Gary Shteyngart: Lake Success · 3 episodes

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    Geraldine Brooks

    Geraldine Brooks · Mar 2008

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    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

    Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 2) · 2 episodes

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    Héctor Tobar

    Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries · Sep 2011

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    Jane Smiley

    Jane Smiley: Private Life · 7 episodes

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    Jenny Offill

    Jenny Offill: Weather · Mar 2020

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    Jesse Ball

    Jesse Ball: The Village on Horseback, and The Curfew · Sep 2011

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    Joe Sacco

    Joe Sacco: The Great War: July 1, 1916 · Dec 2013

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    John Edgar Wideman

    John Edgar Wideman · 2 episodes

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    John Sayles

    John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun · 2 episodes

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    Jorie Graham

    Jorie Graham · May 2000

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    Joshua Ferris

    Joshua Ferris · Apr 2010

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    Karen Joy Fowler

    Karen Joy Fowler · Sep 2004

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    Kevin Wilson

    Kevin Wilson: The Family Fang · Oct 2011

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    Kiran Desai

    Kiran Desai · Jul 2007

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