It's All About You!
Dana Vachon is a writer living in Manhattan.
You're still reading Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City 25 years later, says Dana Vachon, because you're just as self-absorbed as the culture it predicted.
The 9/11 Novels Worth Reading
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Eight years on, which of the many works about the terrorist attacks are most likely to stand the test of time? The Daily Beast finds three novels that are up to the task-and only one was written by an American.
The Virgin Suicides' Sweet 16
Nadine Rubin is the former editor in chief of ELLE South Africa. She moved to New York five years ago and has written for Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times. She has an MA in arts and culture journalism from Columbia University.
Sixteen years after Jeffrey Eugenides' debut novel The Virgin Suicides was published to acclaim, he talks to Nadine Rubin about getting fired for writing it and getting his break from George Plimpton.
If Holden Caulfield Was a Swimmer
A shy young swimmer breaks down the dos and don'ts of chlorinated love in an excerpt from the new novel Swimming.
A Mother-Son Book Bake-Off
Hyatt Bass is the author of The Embers, published by Henry Holt.
Hyatt Bass wrote a novel, The Embers. Her 5-year-old son wrote a book from a kit, The Super-brothers. And when both books launched at once, chaos ensued in their home.
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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.
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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