Stephen King's First Comic Book
Stephen King is finally taking the plunge into comics with American Vampire. Its creator, Scott Snyder, speaks with The Daily Beast about the high-profile guest writer.
The $5 Million Ghost Story
Celia McGee has been the media columnist of the New York Daily News and the publishing columnist for The New York Observer. She currently covers the arts and publishing for The New York Times and others.
Audrey Niffenegger's ghostly new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, cost Scribner $33 a word. Celia McGee writes that even at that price, it might just be a bargain.
Back to the '90s
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Terry McMillan-the 1990s were a beach-read paradise of movie-optioned paperbacks. Here are nine page-turners just as addictive as they were a decade ago.
Exit the Critic
John Douglas Marshall is a critic for The Daily Beast. He was the longtime book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until it ceased publication in March.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's erstwhile book critic recalls his years covering our most literate city-including the question he dared ask Martin Amis and the Nobel winner who loved The Simpsons.
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A Mystery Novelist's True Identity Solved
Sarah Weinman contributes to the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Post and many other print and online publications, and blogs about books and the publishing industry at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.
In a Daily Beast exclusive, Sarah Weinman uncovers the man behind pseudonymous bestselling mystery writer Spencer Quinn-and it turns out to be Stephen King's favorite American suspense novelist.
Meet the Kindle 2
Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Amazon's new wireless reading device is sleeker, faster-and will even tell you a bedtime story.
This week, Hilary Duff took on Dunaway and Etta James provoked Beyonce-2009 is shaping up to be the Year of the Newcomer/Old-Timer Feud. Will old (well, older) stars steal the limelight back from their younger counterparts? Our roundup of the latest beefs.
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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