Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
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George Clooney Saved My Novel
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Walter Kirn is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, and his work appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Time, New York, GQ and Esquire. He is the author of six previous works of fiction: My Hard Bargain: Stories, She Needed Me, Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding. Kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation. He lives in Livingston, Montana.
Walter Kirn's Up in the Air is flying high on Oscar buzz-but it almost never made it to the screen. How the film's director, star, and a twist of fate saved the project from extinction.
No More Lousy Poetry
Nicola Keegan wrote one horrid poem after another in her writing workshop. But she realized one thing: Water played a role in all of them. Soon after, the main character for her debut novel was born.
Halldor Laxness' Independent People is just one of the most sublime works of sympathy that you'll ever read. It's a 600-page novel about sheep. It's the great Icelandic novel. He's a titanically great writer; it's a 50- or 60-year-old bo...
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Salvatore Scibona is the author of The End, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and won the 2009 Young Lions Fiction Award. His fiction has been published in Best American Voices 2004, The Threepenny Review, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Short Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Push-cart Prize.
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How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
Are Hospitals the New Killing Fields?
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
March 20: The Week in Viral Videos
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
What If Dad Had Lived?
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
