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HN friend and contributor, Nick Burd, makes the OUT 100 List this week. Full disclosure, Nick Burd is perhaps one of the smartest and chillest guys we’ve ever met– so we’re really excited for him. Read more about Burd’s novel, “The Vast Fields of Ordinary” here. Purchase a copy here

When Burd’s coming-of-age (and coming-out) novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary debuted in May it proved anything but typical—The New York Times hailed it as “fascinating and dreamy” and “the best kind of first novel.” An alum of the University of Iowa, the New School, and the indie rock band Burn Disco Burn, 29-year-old Burd (right) is a program manager at the literary/human rights organization PEN American Center and is now at work on a new novel he calls “a noirish tale about a gay grifter in Recession-era New York City.”

Other HN favorites include Brad Goreski (“Rachel Zoe Project”), Michael Urie (“Ugly Betty”), poet Mark Doty, Adam Lambert (“American Idol”), Edmund White, Felice Picano, Andrew Holleran, Pedro Almodóvar and, of course, the charming Neil Patrick Harris. [Source: OUT]