Overheard with Evan Smith

Martin Amis is a celebrated and prolific author whose credits include London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Time's Arrow and The Information. His fourteenth novel, The Zone of Interest, is a satire set at Auschwitz. It has attracted attention and controversy, especially in Europe.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, Nicholas Kristof is a journalist, author and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His books have all been co-written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn and primarily focus on poverty, health, and human rights in the developing world.

Katha Pollitt is an award-winning author and columnist for The Nation. Her work of essays surrounding feminism, women’s rights, and politics have been made into books including Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism and Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time.

Ross Douthat is a conservative Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2009, previously working as a senior editor at The Atlantic. He has written a number of books including Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class.

Bob Woodward is one of America's most prominent investigative reporters and non-fiction writers. He currently serves as Associate Editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971. Woodward worked with Carl Bernstein to investigate and report the Watergate scandal, which lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He has written 16 national best-selling non-fiction books.

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed, highly distinguished author, whose thirteenth book is the recently published The Children Act. McEwan has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976, the Man Booker Prize in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam and the WH Smith Literary Award in 2002 for his novel Atonement.

Mark Bittman is an opinion columnist and lead food writer for The New York Times. He’s written two books, the best-selling How to Cook Everything and the groundbreaking Vegan Before 6P.M. (VB6), which introduced Americans to the Flexitarian diet. His newest book is How to Cook Everything Fast.

Lizz Winstead is co-creator, former writer and former correspondent for The Daily Show.

Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker.

Richard Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated independent filmmaker. His newest film, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years with the same cast and is already generating Oscar buzz.