Now Editor-in-Chief of the Barnes & Noble Review, veteran bookseller James Mustich was a founder, and for twenty years publisher, of the book catalogue A Common Reader.

A former teacher of literature, Bill Tipper has been an editor with Barnes & Noble.com for five years. His reviews have appeared in the Washington Post Book World and elsewhere.

David Abrams's stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, The Greensboro Review, and The Missouri Review.He's currently at work on a novel based in part on his experiences while deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army.

Brooke Allen is the author of Twentieth-Century Attitudes; Artistic License; and Moral Minority. She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The New Criterion, The New Leader, The Hudson Review, and The Nation, among others. She was named a finalist for the 2007 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.

Michael Anderson, a former editor at the New York Times Book Review , is writing a biography of the playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Amelia Atlas's reviews have appeared in the New York Sun, 02138, and the Harvard Book Review.

Eric Banks is the former editor of Bookforum . He has contributed to the New York Times , Slate , the Guardian and the Financial Times and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors.

Matthew Battles is the author of Library: An Unquiet History. He has written about language, technology, and history for such publications as The American Scholar, The Boston Sunday Globe, and Harper's Magazine.

Amy Benfer has worked as an editor and staff writer at Salon, Legal Affairs, and Paper magazine. Her reviews and features on books have appeared in Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Believer, Kirkus, and the The New York Times Book Review.