John Grisham's Debut Short Story
John Grisham is the best selling novelist of The Firm and The Pelican Brief, among others. His new book, Ford County, is out November 3.
Read an exclusive excerpt from John Grisham's debut collection, Ford County, a heartbreaking tale of one family's visit to death row.
John Grisham's First Short Story: Part Two
John Grisham is the best selling novelist of The Firm and The Pelican Brief, among others. His new book, Ford County, is out November 3.
Read the conclusion of an exclusive excerpt from John Grisham's debut collection, Ford County, a heartbreaking tale of one family's visit to death row.
Chick Lit for the Smart Set
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
Kate Christensen's new novel, Trouble, is a pitch-perfect look at female friendships and the potent sexual desires of women over 40. By Caryn James.
Kill the Media Zombies
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload. They ought to start with the feckless bureaucrats who are running the place.
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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