Literary Lights Fête Mailer
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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.
Honoring Mailer's Legacy
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The inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony gala and benefit this Tuesday features a pride of literary lions, including Toni Morrison and Joan Didion. Colony co-founder Lawrence Schiller on the author's final wish.
The Selling of Edward Kennedy
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Jonathan Karp, publisher of the just-released Kennedy memoir True Compass, talked with The Daily Beast about why the book isn't political and the death of the embargo.
She Had 'The Biggest Heart of All'
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
Eunice Kennedy never ran for political office, but her impact on the lives of what President Reagan called "America's least powerful people" is her legacy.
The Barack Obama Book Club
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Want to read like a president? The Daily Beast pulled together every book that the Reader in Chief has been spotted with since the campaign. Find out what's on his night table.
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Obama's 'Johnson Moment'
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As Barack Obama aims to turn his presidency from the bully pulpit to bullying Congress on health care, White House aides have found in President Lyndon Baines Johnson the historical example of how a president should behave. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who served as a White House fellow during the Johnson administration and assisted LBJ with his memoirs, tells The Daily Beast that Obama will need to find his 'Johnson moment.'
Two Men of Florence. Richard N. Goodwin is justly known for the stirring presidential speeches he wrote nearly 50 years ago, but he's about to be recognized as a great playwright, too. Two Men of Florence, written by Goodwin and directed...
Warren Hoge is the Vice President and Director of External Relations at the International Peace Institute. For more than three decades, he was an editor and foreign correspondent at the New York Times, he served as bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, London, and the United Nations, deputy metropolitan editor, foreign editor, editor of the New York Times Magazine, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s culture, book review, style, travel, and sports sections.
Mailer's Final Gift
Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life magazine and the Saturday Evening Post. He has published numerous books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce, and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. He has also directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.
The inside story of how the legendary author's friends and family kept his literary legacy alive with the creation of The Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his cherished home in Provincetown. By Lawrence Schiller.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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