The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Diane Sawyer got promoted, Whitney Houston staged a comeback, a plus-size model hit it big, and Angela Lansbury paid homage to Bea Arthur. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
This week's feel-good, breakout indie film (and yes, there's one every week), is Amreeka, first-time filmmaker Cherien Dabis' tale about a Christia...
The Double Life of a Model
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
Runway star Lyle Lodwick was plucked from Brooklyn's streets and thrust into fame. He talks to Alisa Gould-Simon about his semi-secret identity and what he's wearing to Burning Man.
Cashing In on Coming Out
Johanna Piazza wrote the Full Disclosure column for the New York Daily News. A Masters candidate in Religious Studies at NYU, she has contributed to the New York Times, Glamour, Blender, and is a regular contributor to CNN.
Adam Lambert's admissions of his homosexuality and drug use in this week's Rolling Stone may come as a shock to few, but his confessional attitude is publicity gold.
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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Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of Peep Show: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists, Bottoms Up and over 25 other erotica anthologies, and hosts and curates In The Flesh Reading Series.
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. (Follow him on Twitter here.)
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