Freestyle Fatherhood
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?
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...
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.
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.
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.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
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