Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
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Lizzie Skurnick is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading. She lives in Jersey City.
Lizzie Skurnick on how the rush of literary fathers gushing about how to raise their perfect children is upending gender stereotypes and ruining childhoods.
Freestyle Fatherhood
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Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Taylor Antrim speaks with Simon Carr about his moving memoir, The Boys Are Back, and how he improvised raising his two sons after his wife died.
Who's a Bad Mother?
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Susan Cheever is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including American Bloomsbury, My Name is Bill, Note Found in a Bottle, As Good as I Could Be, Home Before Dark, and Treetops. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a director of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author’s Guild. Cheever teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and at the New School.
Ayelet Waldman was slammed for writing she loved her husband, Michael Chabon, more than her kids. Susan Cheever says Waldman's honest new memoir is a tragedy wrapped in a comedy.
In these troubled times, when another Palin has been trotted out onto the world stage for a cheap laugh, I retreat into Dickens. He is the only one who is truly divine about hypocrisy. Cringing in despair after watching McCain debating h...
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Long unmemorable as an actor, Monty Python’s Eric Idle has trotted out an interminable number of glib performances in funny wigs and bad moustaches. But it is as a writer that he will be best forgotten—he is the author of Spamalot, Hello Sailor, and Not the Messiah. Grammys, Tonys, and Lifetime Achievements have been thrust at him, but he still refuses to go away. It’s not right.
How Oscars Ruin a Marriage
The Pure Greed of Obama's Phony Health-Care Reform
Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author. He directed and produced Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko. He has also written seven books, most recently, Mike’s Election Guide 2008.
Women in The World Featured Panel: Rape as a Weapon of War
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The Right Stifles Debate
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.
