Stoker Family Values
Matthew Shaer writes regularly about books for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Bookforum, among other publications.
A slasher-flick screenwriter and Bram Stoker's great-grand nephew have written the first "official" Dracula novel since the 1897 original. Matthew Shaer on the pair resurrecting the Count.
Moving In With Mom, Dad and God
Marisa Meltzer is coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life. Her next book Girl Power will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February.
In her uproarious memoir, Rhoda Janzen recounts moving back in with her conservative Mennonite parents, and getting reacquainted with borscht, public prayer, and being set up with her cousins.
Parenting for Smarties
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.
A parenting book that contains no advice? That's the conceit behind NurtureShock, a new non-instructional tome that will make you a better mom or dad without you even knowing it.
Gene Hackman's War
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Retired from acting, Gene Hackman has scripted a second act for himself as a novelist. Taylor Antrim speaks to the Hollywood legend about Obama, Hemingway, and doing pushups on set.
The Sex Worker Chronicles
Mars van Grunsven is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many of Holland's leading magazines and newspapers, including De Groene Amsterdammer, FEM Business and NRC Handelsblad. He writes about arts, business, literature, media and social issues.
What do hookers, strippers, and porn stars do all day? A new book, edited by a former rent boy, tells their stories in their own words-words that are NSFW.
Just the Fact: Hemingway's Hand Grenades
Terry Mort studied with Hemingway’s official biographer, Carlos Baker, at Princeton. He served as an officer in the Navy and spent three years on active duty, including a deployment to Vietnam and subsequent patrols of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. He is the author of three novels as well as a book on fly-fishing and has edited works by Mark Twain, Jack London and Zane Grey.
Authors tell The Daily Beast about the most surprising factoid in their books. This week, Terry Mort on Ernest Hemingway's hare-brained habit of chasing U-boats with a sack full of small bombs.
Bernie Made Off With My Wife
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.
The husband of Bernie Madoff's mistress talks to Tracy Quan about his wife's "cocky" behavior, the sexual comparisons, whether he'll leave her, and why he'll take half her book's profits.
Heartless Conservatives Unite!
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Lee Siegel talks to Sam Tanenhaus, author of the era-defining The Death of Conservatism, about his Buckley fetish, Sarah Palin's culture war, and why the right wing abandoned politics.
Summer's Last Beach Read
New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's books include Ike, Horse People, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Charmed Lives.
On those final few trips to the shore, take along Michael M. Thomas' Love & Money, a sleek, savvy novel that will transport you back to a time when spending was cool.
The Stripper Who Lost a Breast
Melissa Lion is the author of two novels, Swollen and Upstream, both published by Random House. She blogs about her life as an SUV-driving, conventionally-grown food eating Californian living in Portland, Oregon at melissalion.com and tweets about being a bike-riding, canning, single mom as @melissalion.
Viva Las Vegas was Portland, Oregon's most famous stripper. After breast cancer left her with a mastectomy, she went through a period of soul searching-then got back on stage.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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