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...
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.
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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