The Yes List – Wes Anderson's Fantastic Fox
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Wes Anderson's magical Fantastic Mr. Fox, a provocative Man Ray retrospective, and the Newport Jazz Festival goes digital.
James Patterson's Bestselling Classics
James Patterson is one of the bestselling writers of all time, with more than 160 million copies of his books sold worldwide. His lifelong work to promote books and reading is reflected in his new web site ReadKiddoRead.com, which helps adults everywhere find the very best children’s books for their kids. He lives in Florida.
The acclaimed thriller author says James Joyce forced him to discover what he could write when he realized Ulysses was untouchable, and shares some of his favorite reads.
Twitterature
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Would you like to read Ulysses 140 characters at a time? Is a short story just too long? Then curl up with a BlackBerry and dive into Twitter Lit-micro novels, online book clubs, and (gasp) real books.
Men of Steel
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Philipp Meyer's dark and violent vision of small-town life in his debut novel, American Rust, is already drawing comparisons to Dennis Lehane, Cormac McCarthy-and Hemingway.
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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