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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 Squid and the Whale of a Book
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
With his ambitious fourth novel about a family of oddball Chicago scientists, Joe Meno swings for the fences in The Great Perhaps. It's a touching, 400-page tale of Big Themes-with Nazi secrets, a lesbian crush, and a don't-worry-be-happy ending.
Year of the Short Story
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Mary Gaitskill's powerful new collection Don't Cry continues 2009's impressive run of great short fiction-with even more to come from Jay McInerney, Alice Munro, and Tolstoy. By Taylor Antrim
The Thinking Man's Sex Symbols
Touré is a columnist for The Daily Beast. He's also an NBC contributor and the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
The ten women of 2008 who stimulated our brains... and our minds.
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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