The World's Brainiest Call Girl
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, will be published this fall.
This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.
It's All About You!
Dana Vachon is a writer living in Manhattan.
You're still reading Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City 25 years later, says Dana Vachon, because you're just as self-absorbed as the culture it predicted.
Carrie Bradshaw and Me
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
When open auditions for Sex and the City 2 called for "fashion models, socialites, and soccer players," The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana had to wonder: Did she have what it takes?
The Week In Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, we lost two icons and gained a museum, the Oscars dropped a bombshell, and a Jonas brother testified in D.C. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in TV, art, music, and film.
How Male Bisexuality Got Cool
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.
From TV bromances to political man crushes, male bisexuality has gone mainstream. But is it a sign of true sexual attraction-or just an act?
Zoë Heller Keeps the Faith
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
In her entertaining new novel, The Believers, Zoë Heller takes a New York family of left-wing nuts and steers them on the path to righteousness.
The Carrie Bradshaws of Mumbai
Keshni Kashyap is a writer who lives (mostly) in Los Angeles. Her first book, Tina's Mouth, a graphic novel, is to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010.
Forget Slumdog Millionaire. With all the thirtysomething women on the prowl-in chic sandals-Mumbai is starting to feel more like Sex and the City.
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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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