A Wicked L.A. Noir
David J. Montgomery is a critic for The Daily Beast and has written about authors and books for many of the country's largest newspapers.
Richard Lange's first book set the bar so high that his sophomore effort had almost no chance of living up to the hype-except that it does, an L.A. Confidential for the 21st century.
The Next Twilight?
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
If I Stay is the hot young-adult title for April, and it's already been optioned by the studio that made the blockbuster vampire movie. The book's author and the film's producer share their plans with The Daily Beast.
Exit the Critic
John Douglas Marshall is a critic for The Daily Beast. He was the longtime book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until it ceased publication in March.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's erstwhile book critic recalls his years covering our most literate city-including the question he dared ask Martin Amis and the Nobel winner who loved The Simpsons.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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