Winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Mat Johnson has been compared to writers ranging from Vonnegut (New York Times) to Roth (Washington Post) to Ellison (Vanity Fair). His novel Pym, a satirical fantasy about race and Edgar Allan Poe, was named one of the best books of 2011 by numerous publications and nominated for the year’s unclaimed Pulitzer in the New York Times Magazine. In Loving Day, the Philadelphia native tells a comic and heartfelt story set in an accidently possible utopia in the heart of his home town.

The “delectably hardboiled” (Entertainment Weekly) Walter Mosley is the bestselling author of more than 43 books, including Little Green, Fear Itself, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown. His many honors include an O. Henry Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Grammy award, and the PEN American Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Mosley burst on the literary scene in 1990 with Devil in a Blue Dress, the first Easy Rawlins mystery featuring a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. And Sometimes I Wonder About You follows Leonid McGill, the New York City gumshoe counterpart to Easy Rawlins, as he tries to balance dangerous cases with the demands of a chaotic personal life.