5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - June 2025

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Her highly acclaimed first novel, The Ministry of Time, was the bestselling debut novel of last year, an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and one of Barack Obama's picks for summer reading 2024.

John Harris is a multiple award-winning writer, journalist, podcaster and presenter. He has written professionally about music since he was 19, and is also known for his pioneering political and social writing, centred on his weekly column in The Guardian. His acclaimed books included The Last Party and Get Back, the authorised book that accompanied Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary series. His new memoir, Maybe I'm Amazed, explores creativity and neurodivergence, and tells the extraordinary story of how music opened up the world to his son.

Molly Jong-Fast is the author of three books, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, a political analyst for MSNBC News and host of the Fast Politics podcast. She lives in Manhattan. Her new book, How to Lose Your Mother, is a brutally funny mother–daughter memoir about her relationship with her mother Erica Jong, author of the feminist autobiographical novel Fear of Flying.