My Favorite Reads
Anna Quindlen is the author of five bestselling novels, including Rise and Shine, and Blessings, and numerous nonfiction works including How Reading Changed My Life. Until May 2009, she wrote the column "The Last Word" for Newsweek.
From a brainy beach book to a dishy history of Marie Antoinette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author shares some beloved books.
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.
What Happened Since Marjorie Died
Timothy Noah is a senior writer at Slate magazine and editor of Reputation, a just-published anthology of profiles by Marjorie Williams. Previously Noah edited The Woman at the Washington Zoo, an earlier collection of Williams’ writings.
My wife was one of the most astute chroniclers of the late 20th century, but I'm not sure that before her death even she could have placed the name "Barack Obama."
Big Woman on Campus
Kate Taylor's reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the New Yorker, and the New York Sun. She edited the anthology Going Hungry.
Debora Spar, the new president of Barnard, has been hired to bring a new dynamism to New York's premier women's university.
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.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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