- Danielle Minkoff — a 30-year-old television producer for the documentary TV series The Monitor.
- Marina Thwaite — the 30-year-old daughter of critic Murray Thwaite who signed a book deal out of college and is living at home after spending her advance without completing the book.
- Julius Clarke — a 30-year-old, gay, half-white, half-Vietnamese critic who writes for The Village Voice.
- Bootie Tubb — a 19-year-old college dropout and the paternal cousin of Marina Thwaite.
- Murray Thwaite — a 61-year-old journalist, professor and author; Marina's revered father, married to her mother Annabel.
- Ludovic Seeley — an Australian editor newly moved to New York City who is launching a literary magazine.
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