Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Joe Mathews is a journalist, an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as Justice Department reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as a city desk reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy.
Gerald Posner is the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism (www.posner.com). Posner lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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Renata Espinosa is the New York editor of Fashion Wire Daily. She is also the co-founder of impressionistic fashion and art blog TheNuNu and a sometimes backup dancer for "The Anna Copa Cabanna Show."
Amanda Fortini has written for The New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
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That's a great list.
I'm just surprised this video of pigs being shot out of a cannonball over a baseball stadium never made it onto that list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
Not a bad list. I almost knew of all of them. Thanks for keeping it mainstream and not abscure, intellectual, high-society stuff. It helps me, the Common Man, to enjoy. Although I do like learning...
not a bad list, but Joe Liberman was not a 2008 rookie!
dont forget the JOE's (aka the douchey Plumber guy!)
I can certainly imagine my life without the "pitbull in lipstick," I am not a high-minded person yet, some of the people are not what anyone can call, "providential" in nature.
None of these people are commodious, to the common good and will prove to be worse than there predecessors in their respective fields.
Surely there were more than these that your editors could have chosen, people who did make a difference in the lives of all so inclined. Yet your chose these people, for what reasons I do not know, but in choosing them you have shown the sometimes shallow nature of lists that review the past years experiences and people of "note."
Thank you.
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