This Week's Hot Reads
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This week: A journalist digs into the shocking story of the mob hit on his accountant father, Mary Karr's memoir about her alcoholism and Catholicism, a great fiction saga of Manhattan over four centuries, Paul Auster's newest and highly praised novel, and a deep look at the world of Google.
Nightmarish Scenes from New York's Subway
Seth Michael Donsky is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at the Berlin, Seattle, London and Cinequest International Film Festivals and MoMA, New York. As a journalist he has been published in Los Angeles Confidential, Gotham, the New York Press, and the online versions of ELLE Décor, Metropolitan Home and Home. His writing will appear in Cleiss Press’ upcoming Best Sex Writing of 2010.
As the remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three opens tonight, an intrepid photographer of New York's mayhem-filled 1980s subway system recalls harrowing tales from the tunnels.
Prince Harry competes in the Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governors Island.
No Pants Subway Ride
Improv Everywhere's latest prank: the annual 'No Pants Subway Ride.' It looked pretty cold that day in NYC.
I was in New York City recently and went to have a bite to eat at Melba's in Harlem on 114th Street and Eighth Avenue. Tasty food, good décor, and nice drinks!
Michelle Williams is a singer and actress with her finger on the pulse of pop culture. Her new pop CD UnExpected is in stores now and she is also a partner in the WNBA team the Chicago Sky.
New York's Impending Real Estate Doom
Julie Satow is a business reporter and editor, whose work has appeared in Crain's New York Business, the New York Sun, the Newark Star-Ledger, Institutional Investor, and Reuters. She is a regular commentator on the Fox Business Channel.
A hastily drafted moratorium on foreclosures has kept many New Yorkers in their homes. It's about to change.
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.
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.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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