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BARRY BLITT The illustrious illustrator has worked for Time, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and The New Yorker, where his political cartoons often cause a stir. “It gets the adrenaline going,” he says. Although this month he worked on a story about tennis (page 55), Blitt’s a hockey fan. “My beloved Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup this year,” he says. “It’s all I really care about.”

TIM CALVER During his junior year of college, Calver bought an underwater camera for a scuba trip to the Bahamas. The rest is history. “There is no end to the creative possibilities presented by water,” he says. “I am constantly inspired by new subjects and new ways to shoot.” He was happy to return to the Bahamas (page 62), because “the water was just starting to get warm, and I could wear a shorty wet suit.”

EDWARD LEWINE A self-described “committed omnivore,” Lewine’s covered food, wine and spirits for The New York Times Magazine and Details, among others. He’s also working on two books—one about wine and the other home repair. It was a treat for him to cover the Maine lobster industry (page 51), because he “loves the accent,” though he “couldn’t reproduce it if you offered me the keys to Fenway Park.” He’ll take his lobster broiled, not boiled, please.

MELISSA NIX A journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times, Nix is also a seasoned traveler. She has lived in Germany, Belgium, Rome, Tokyo and Seoul, and enjoyed her three perfect days in Victoria immensely (page 76). “I loved the baby goats at the park,” she says. “And the Victorian’s Clamato-based Bloody Mary, the Bloody Caesar, was one of my favorite things. Clamato juice is key.”

WILLA PASKIN Having written about television for Double X (a Slate spinoff), Salon, The Daily Beast, Variety and Radar, Paskin has become an expert. This month, she got to catch up on thirtysomething (page 40). “It holds up enormously well,” she says. “I watched the pilot in a coffee shop, on my computer, and I was the crazy lady in the corner booth sobbing for no apparent reason. But there was a reason! It’s a great show.”

STEPHAN TALTY Always adventure-minded, Talty fi rst learned about undersea pharmaceutical researchers (page 62) while writing a book about Caribbean pirate Henry Morgan. “I don’t actually dive,” he says. “But I do go to a lot of dive bars.” His current book is titled The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army, and he’s working on another about the Dalai Lama’s 1959 escape from Tibet.

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