When you read this partial list of writers who have appeared in the TCW reading series in the past few years, you are bound to experience the sinking feeling that you have missed several of your favorites. Stay tuned for next season, when potential readers include Rita Dove, Edmund White, Richard Ford, and many others.

Kathy Acker
Isabel Allende
John Ashbery
Rick Bass
Andre Codresciu
Denis Johnson
Maxine Kumin
Li-Young Lee
Peter Matthiessen
W.S. Merwin
Lorrie Moore
Haruki Murakami
Naomi Shihab Nye
Tim O’Brien
Kenzaburo Oe
Michael Ondaatje
Richard Price
Ntozake Shange
Jane Smiley
Tom Stoppard
James Tate
Christopher Tilghman
Robert Stone
Sarah Schulman
Steven Soderbergh
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

— M.W.

This article appears in May 9 • 1997 and May 9 • 1997 (Cover).

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