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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.
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