Amy Fine Collins – author and contributor at Vanity Fair Heywood Hale Broun – sportswriter and CBS Sports commentator Arthur Chu – columnist and former contestant on Jeopardy! Diane Di Prima – Beat generation poet Kurt Eichenwald – New York Times reporter and author of books on white-collar crime (Serpent on the Rock, The Informant, Conspiracy of Fools) Julie Falk (1998) – Executive Director of Bitch Media Jessica Fisher – poet, translator, critic; winner of the Rome Prize and Yale Series of Younger Poets Jonathan Franzen – author of The Corrections; winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction Daisy Fried (1989) – poet, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again and She Didn't Mean to Do It Gregory Gibson – author of Gone Boy, Demon of the Waters, and Hubert’s Freaks Justin Hall – pioneer blogger Adam Haslett (1992) – author of You Are Not a Stranger Here (Pulitzer Prize finalist, National Book Award finalist, and 2002 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winner); stories in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts Arlie Russell Hochschild, sociologist and author Marni Hodgkin, children's book editor tech Anick Jesdanun (1991), technology reporter, editor, and the first "internet writer" in the history of the Associated Press history Josef Joffe – Editor in Chief, Die Zeit John Brady Kiesling – writer, former U.S. diplomat Christopher Lehmann-Haupt – journalist, book review and obit editor for New York Times Cynthia Leive – Editor in Chief, Glamour Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868–1939) – novelist Daniel Menaker – fiction editor, The New Yorker, and Executive Editor-in-Chief, Random House James A. Michener – novelist Lulu Miller – writer, artist, and science reporter for National Public Radio Victor Navasky – publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation (1995–2005); Chair of Columbia Journalism Review Yongsoo Park (1994) - novelist; author of the novels Boy Genius, Las Cucarachas, the essay collection The Art of Eating Bitter : a Hausfrau Dad's Journey with Kids, and the memoir Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens Drew Pearson – journalist Jon Raymond – novelist, short story writer, and co-writer of the films Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy Rishi Reddi – short story writer Rudy Rucker – cyberpunk novelist; winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards Norman Rush – novelist, winner of the 1991 National Book Award for Mating William Saletan –