Invite four fascinating people to your next dinner party.

Here are my choices!

Sunday: Jamaica Kincaid, Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese, George Saunders

Monday: Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Helen Oyeyemi, Jordan Peele

Tuesday: Thelma Schoonmaker, Ada Limón, Terence Blanchard, Francis Ford Coppola

Wednesday: Isabel Allende, Martin McDonagh, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Howard Shore

Thursday: Kadir Nelson, Wong Kar-wai, Zadie Smith, David Hockney

Friday: Kara Swisher, Quentin Tarantino, Jeremy O. Harris, Joyce Carol Oates

Saturday Night Ghost Party (free for all): Billy Wilder, James Wong Howe, Rod Serling, Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, James Baldwin, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, Edward Hopper, (with requisite side-eyes from Shirley Jackson, Truman Capote and Bernard Herrmann)

The Quiet Table: The Coen Brothers who won’t spill any secrets, but think the rug really ties the room together.