Within the pages of our first issue, these writers and artists have either written or created something (essay/fiction/poetry/painting/etc.), been interviewed, or had one of their works discussed at length in a review or essay. So while we can't quite call all these artists our "contributors" per se, we like to think of them as the guests at a dinner party, all having a conversation with one another about David Markson, about Solitude, and about so much more. — with Henry David Thoreau, Scofield Thayer, Charles J. Shields, Lewis H. Lapham, Carmiel Banasky, Norman Mailer, Enrique Vila-Matas, Jenny Eagleton, Matthew Daddona, Chigozie Obioma, Paul Cézanne, Lisa Lucas, lisa lucas, Matthew Specktor, Scott Cheshire, David Burr Gerrard, Mira Jacob, Don DeLillo, Todd J. Colby, Conor Higgins, Tyler Malone, Michael Seidenberg, Lord Byron, Dustin Illingworth, David Markson, Michelangelo, Tyler Stoddard Smith, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edgar Degas, Ann Beattie, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alyssa Bishop, Joey Rubin, Louis Fratino, Laura Sims, David Foster Wallace, Randall Winston, Joseph Tabbi, Odilon Redon and Joseph Salvatore.