What Hookers Do on Valentine's Day
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Is it good to be a call girl on the most romantic night of the year? Very. Unless you're getting engaged.
Online Dating Just Got Weirder
Laura van Straaten serves as a contributing editor to The Daily Beast. Before moving into the wild world of the web, she spent more than a decade as an award-winning producer and journalist for NBC, CNN and PBS.
New tech and online ventures are pushing the boundaries of romance. But are singles ready to be matched up by their exes, their immune-system compatibility, and strangers looking to score a finder's fee?
My Funny Valentine
Liza Donnelly has contributed cartoons to The New Yorker for 20 years. Her new book, A CARTOON MARRIAGE: Adventures in Love and Matrimony, which she created with her husband Michael Maslin, also a longtime New Yorker cartoonist, will be published next month by Random House on Valentine’s Day.
Michael Maslin began contributing to the New Yorker right out of college in 1977. He has had four collections of his work published, and he co-edited Call Me When You Reach Nirvana and Husbands and Wives, both collections of his and Liza Donnelly’s cartoons.
Husband and wife cartoonists Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin animate love, sex, marriage, and divorce in this excerpt from their new book, Cartoon Marriage.
The New Baby Bust
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Is there a stimulus package that can save our sex lives? An exclusive Daily Beast Valentine's poll reveals that in the chilly climate of recessionary America, sexual activity is down, people are postponing having kids-and the size of your bank account matters in the bedroom.
As every parent knows, Valentine's Day has become primarily a children's holiday. Every February, we buy or make cards for our kids' friends, siblings or their big crush. I wanted to make Valentine's Day synonymous with another kind of g...
Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress and four-time Academy Award nominee. Her film credits include: Nine Months, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far From Heaven, The Hours, Freedomland, and I’m Not There.
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.
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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