Although Easy Rawlins is a reluctant sleuth, agreeing to search for a white woman only after being fired from his job as a machinist, he would go on to become one of the genre's legends, guaranteeing his author's reputation as the most important
black crime novelist since Chester Himes.
, Dan Gregor (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Cherry Jones (American
Crime, Transparent), Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Parks and Recreation), Andy Kindler (Bob's Burgers, Maron), Nick Kroll (Oh Hello on Broadway, Kroll Show), John Mulaney (Oh Hello on Broadway, Saturday Night Live), musician Krist Novoselic, Henry Rollins (The Legend of Korra, Sons of Anarchy), Tracee Ellis Ross (
Black - ish, Reed Between the Lines),
novelist Cheryl Strayed, Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok, Annihilation, Westworld, Creed), David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Role Models) Brent Weinbach (Rad Lands, Another Period), Dolly Wells (Doll & Em, 45 Years), Shannon Woodward (Westworld, Raising Hope), and singer - songwriter Kurt Vile.