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Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer's memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala celebrating his writers' colony. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Yale's Conspiracy of Silence
Larry Kramer is a writer and gay rights activist.
Twelve years after Yale rejected a $7 million endowment for a gay student center, the school's Gay and Lesbian Association invited legendary playwright and gay-rights activist Larry Kramer back to campus to receive its first Lifetime Achievement Award. The following is his speech.
A Short History of Perks at Time Inc.
Jesse Oxfeld, a senior editor at New York magazine, has covered the media business for Gawker, Editor & Publisher, and Brill's Content.
The publishing company has gone from charter planes, drink carts and comped membership in the Rainbow Room to vending machines and-say it ain't so-no free Snapple.
Part memoir, part New York diner cookbook, Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin is a must have for anyone who loves to cook, eat, or read about cooking and eating. With more than 100 dishes ranging from traditional diner fare...
Emily Farris is the author of Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven and the founder and host of the annual Casserole Party. When not preparing food, eating food, feeding other people food, or writing about food, she edits Nerve's culture blog, Scanner. You can find Emily at casserolecrazy.com and eefers.com.
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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