Sarah Manguso recommends "Mes Amis" by Emmanuel Bove.
A self-described "guilty liberal," Colin Beavan began blogging about his and his wife's experiment in "no impact living."
Daphne Sheldrick grew up on a farm in Kenya, raised orphaned animals and later became co-warden of Tsavo National Park. She describes the wonders of elephants.
Nicholas Felton transforms data into something beautiful. As a self-described "information designer" and extremely dedicated life logger, he tracks aspects of his life over the course of the year and then publishes them as "annual reports."
Damali Ayo runs the website rent-a-negro.com. She's written a book called "How To Rent A Negro."
David Gessner is a nature writer who's sick of nature and most nature writing.
E.O. Wilson may know more about ants than anyone else on the planet...
Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.