Steve Fast Creators & Guests

David Daley is the publisher of the Connecticut Mirror and the digital media fellow for the Wilson Center for Humanities and the Arts and the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia.Daley is known for his book, "Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy," on the politics of gerrymandering.Daley was the editor-in-chief of Salon, an editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Details magazine and a reporter and editor at the Hartford Courant. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and New York magazine.Daley was raised in South Windsor. He received his B.A. from Boston College and his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mark Sundeen is an author. He also teaches writing at the University of Montana.Sundeen's work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Outside Magazine, and McSweeney's. His first book, "Car Camping," was published 2000. His second book, "The Making of Toro," was published in 2003. His third book, "North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters," was published in 2010. His fourth book, "The Man Who Quit Money," was published in 2012.

Bethany McLean is a journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.

Roberta Kaplan is a lawyer and attorney.

Ben Yagoda is a writer and educator. He is the host of the podcast "The Lives They're Living."In 2018, Yagoda retired from his position as a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware. Before becoming a teacher, he was a film critic for the Philadelphia Daily News and an editor for Philadelphia and other magazines.Yagoda's work has appeared in Slate, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, The American Scholar, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. He has authored, coauthored, or edited fourteen books.

Ralph Nader is a political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney. He is best known for his advocacy for consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. His first book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," was published in 1965 and established his reputation as a consumer advocate. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students in an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, which led to the overhaul and reform of the FTC. Nader established a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.Nader ran for President of the United States as an independent in 2000, 2004, and 2008.Nader is the author or co-author of more than 40 books. He was the subject of a documentary film, "An Unreasonable Man," which was released in 2006.Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard.

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is a contributing writer at National Geographic, New York Times bestselling author of The Spy Who Couldn't Spell, and contributor to The New Yorker and NYT Magazine.

Bart Denton Ehrman is a writer and has written & edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Michael A. Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.

Megan McArdle is an opinion columnist, journalist, writer, and blogger based in Washington, D.C. She writes mostly about economics, finance, and government policy from a libertarian perspective.

Tim Harford is an economist and journalist.

Tom Vanderbilt is a journalist, blogger, and author of the best-selling book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do.

Dave Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels.

Dr. Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a writer, journalist and author whose work links food with wider themes of health, psychology and history. She also writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal.Wilson began her career as a research fellow at Cambridge University. She then became a journalist, reporting on food and other topics, such as film, biography, music and history. In 1998 she became the weekly food critic for the New Statesman. She then went on to write the "Kitchen Thinker" column in The Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books. Her first book, "The Hive: the Story of the Honeybee and Us," was published in 2005. Wilson received her B.A. in History from Cambridge University, her M.A. in Political Science the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Kenneth C. Davis is an American historian, writer, and author of the book More Deadly Than War.

Bryan Burrough is an author and correspondent for Vanity Fair.

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

Gilbert M. Gaul is an American journalist. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for three others.

Lydia V. Pyne is a writer, historian, and author of "Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff."