Most people think Google has made doing research at "old-fashioned" libraries all but irrelevant. But at its annual gala last week, the New York Public Library took on all purveyors of online search by positioning itself as an unrivaled...
Maryam Banikarim is the Senior Vice President for Integrated Sales Marketing at NBC Universal and also oversees marketing for the company’s women and lifestyle cross-platform initiatives, Women@NBCU, Green is Universal and Health & Wellness.
Eloise at 55
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Illustrator Hilary Knight is being honored by the New York Public Library tonight. He speaks to Rachel Syme about Kay Thompson, the lost Eloise book, and her new movie. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
In an interview backstage this week at one of the New York Public Library's LIVE events, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells Paul HoldengrA¤ber why hallucinations aren't always a bad thing. NYPL
The Death of Boom Culture?
As part of a live series at the New York Public Library, authors Walter Benn Michaels, David Simon, Susan Straight and Dale Peck discuss fiction in the age of inequality. Full video here.
Jennifer Aniston's $50K Hairstyle vs. Librarian Pensions
Barbara Goldsmith is the bestselling author and historian of five award-winning books. Ms. Goldsmith has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recently designated a “Living Landmark” by the New York Landmark Conservancy.
So it's come to this: New York paparazzi are chasing down elderly librarians-and turning them into scapegoats for our collective recession rage. Barbara Goldsmith on how our society rewards the wrong heroes.
As the nation contemplates the beginning of Barack Obama's historic presidency, the New York Public Library has put together an amazing exhibition of presidential manuscripts. Among them is George Washington's recipe for "Small Beer," wh...
Maud Newton is a writer, editor, blogger, and former lawyer. She is best known for her blog MaudNewton.com, which has been praised, cited, and criticized by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the New Yorker, and New York magazine.
An Autopsy of the Book Business
Jason Epstein is chairman of On Demand Books. He was for many years editorial director of Random House during a 50-year career. In 1952, he introduced the trade paperback format and later co-founded the New York Review of Books and founded with Edmund Wilson the Library of America. He is the author of Book Business, now available in 10 translations.
Roll over, Gutenberg! Publishing legend Jason Epstein says the only way to save the book industry is to get rid of all the books.
Behind the Brooke Astor Affair
Michael Gross is the author of 740 Park, Model and the forthcoming Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum. A Contributing Editor of Travel & Leisure, he also writes the blog gipebox at mgross.com.
New York high society has reasserted itself in the tawdry battle for Astor's millions.
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.
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.
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.
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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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