Notebook on Cities and Culture Creators & Guests

Colin Marshall is a Seoul-based essayist, broadcaster and public speaker on cities, language and culture, he is also the host of Notebook on Cities and Culture Podcast.

Jay Caspian Kang is a writer and editor. He is a correspondent on Vice News Tonight and a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine. Previously, he was an editor of Grantland, then of the science and technology blog Elements at The New Yorker.

Peter Daniel Sagal is a humorist, writer, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and the PBS special Constitution USA with Peter Sagal.

Maud Newton is a writer, critic, and former lawyer.

Jesse Thorn is an American radio host, podcast producer, and entrepreneur. He hosts Bullseye with Jesse Thorn on NPR and the long-running podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go!. Thorn is also the founder of Maximum Fun, a podcast network that produces a variety of shows, spanning comedy, culture, and advice. He has also helped launch successful shows like My Brother, My Brother and Me.

Nathan Rabin is a film and music critic known for having coined the phrase "manic pixie dream girl."Rabin was the first head writer for The A.V. Club, which he left to co-found and become a staff writer for The Dissolve. At The Dissolve, he wrote the columns "Forgotbusters" and "Streaming University." He left The Dissolve to return to The A.V. Club as a freelance writer. He has written articles on the Insane Clown Posse, Phish, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Rabub was a panelist on the show "Movie Club with John Ridley" on AMC.Rabin's first book, the memoir, "The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture," was published in 2009. He has written several books about pop culture, including two about Al Yankovic.Rabin was raised in Chicago. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Owen Hatherley is a British writer, author, and journalist. He writes primarily on architecture, politics, and culture.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Eliza Skinner is originally from Richmond, VA and started her performing career as an unnamed child revolutionary in a production of Evita. She is now a stand-up comedian and has appeared on The Pete Holmes Show, @Midnight, Chelsea Lately, Upload with Shaquille O’Neal, MTV, Showtime, AMC and the BBC. In his Reddit AMA, Patton Oswalt called her one of his favorite up-and-coming comedians. Last fall, Eliza was a writer and correspondent on Totally Biased (produced by Chris Rock), and her Funny Or Die videos have been retweeted by President Obama (seriously.) She is a regular performer at the UCB in LA and NYC, and this year she was selected to be one of the “New Faces Of Comedy” at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.

Alain de Botton is a philosopher and author, his books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life.

Roland Kelts is a Japanese-American writer and author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.

Karina Longworth is a film critic, author, and journalist.

Alissa Walker is a writer and Urbanism editor at Curbed.

Danny Crichton is a Managing Editor of TechCrunch.

Greg Milner is a copywriter, editor, writer, and author of Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds.

Gabriela Jauregui is an author, writer, poet, critic, and activist.

Ramin Bahrani is a director and screenwriter.

Megan Ganz is a comedy writer and former associate editor of The Onion. She is a writer and executive producer on the FXX series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She previously wrote for the NBC series Community for three years from 2010 to 2013, and left to write for Modern Family from 2013 to 2015. She also wrote for the Fox comedy series The Last Man on Earth, and co-created the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest alongside Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day.