Mea Culpa, Kiddo
Marty Beckerman is the author of Generation S.L.U.T. (MTV Books) and Dumbocracy (Disinformation). He has written for Playboy, Discover, Radar and Huffington Post. His website is www.MartyBeckerman.com.
Seven years ago, my feud with 17-year-old wunderkind Nick McDonell was all over the tabloids. But with his new book, An Expensive Education, I've made peace with the lit world's It Boy.
American Dreamer: The Director's Cut
Joel Schumacher is a film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, The Phantom of the Opera, Phone Booth, The Number 23 and Batman & Robin.
Peter G. Peterson is chairman emeritus and cofounder of The Blackstone Group, chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, founding chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, founding president of The Concord Coalition, and retired chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also the founding chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. His most recent book, Running on Empty, was a national bestseller.
Hollywood director Joel Schumacher talks to Peter G. Peterson about what a movie version of his new memoir might be like.
For the desperate romantics, just get Wuthering Heights and watch Laurence Olivier and you can swoon all over the room.
Joel Schumacher is a film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Flatliners, The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, The Phantom of the Opera, Phone Booth, The Number 23 and Batman & Robin.
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.
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.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads 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.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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