Zoe-ing, Zoe-ing, Gone!
Choire Sicha is co-proprietor of The Awl and is at work on a nonfiction book for HarperStudio.
QVC broadcasts live from the tents at Bryant Park. Choire Sicha joins the audience of the most successful fashion show in history.
This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: Cold Warriors, druggie Scottish lit, a man who believes he's Christopher Columbus, an insider account of the Lehman collapse, and a Mad Ave memoir.
Hollywood vs. Leno
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Many in Hollywood are hopeful Jay Leno fails. The reason? His show signals the end of the good old days for anyone who isn't a comic, says Kim Masters.
Mad Men's Finest Hour
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.
The coolest show on TV is back for Season Three this Sunday, and The Daily Beast's Caryn James says it will be the dizziest ride yet-if only the women talked more.
Harvard Seeks Hipsters
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
With a new fashion line and an NYC Prep cameo, Harvard is making a bid to become the hippest Ivy. Kathleen Kingsbury wonders whether selling seersucker at schlocky retailers will help make it the go-to destination for glamour.
Why Madison Avenue Is Over
Eric Dezenhall co-founded the communications firm Dezenhall Resources, Ltd., and serves as its CEO. His first book, Nail 'em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Business, pioneered techniques for understanding and defusing crises.
Madison Ave., addicted to the message "you deserve it," has no vocabulary to deliver the bad news that the party's over.
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.
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.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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