Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
A few years back, Irwyn Applebaum, the president of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group and a maestro of mass-market fiction, traveled to Rancho Mirage, Calif., for a meeting at the home of Tim LaHaye, the evangelical preacher and creator of the Left Behind series. The wildly best-selling apocalyptic adventure novels involve, among other things, vivid Read More
U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania could hardly contain his delight as he addressed a packed ballroom at the Plaza Hotel on Monday evening. "Just know I love you!" the senator, a Catholic, shouted to the largely Jewish crowd at the Republican Jewish Coalition's Salute to the Republican Congress.
After kvelling about how thrilled he Read More"I'm an individual with a family and with friends, and my father is an individual with a publishing house, an agent and P.R. people. It's invariable with that scenario the person with the bigger machine will win out in some way. But that's something I knew when I took this on." Jessica Hendra was on Read More
A few dozen passengers were settling into their seats in the
Quiet Car of the Acela Regional Express as it rolled out of Boston's South Station on Friday, July 30, when a slightly rumpled guy boarded the train, a Democratic National Convention credential still slung around his neck. The man began talking-quite loudly-about Senator John Kerry's Read MoreJust months after a minister accused him of fabricating quotes,
Jimmy Breslin is in hot water with a clergyman again. This time, a Roman Catholic priest Mr. Breslin quoted-unnamed-in his most recent book says the Newsday columnist put words in his mouth. The Reverend Patrick Fitzgerald of Mary Immaculate Church in Bellport, Long Island, told The Read MoreCAMBRIDGE, Mass.-"Cambridge here is not unusual. It mirrors New York and Los Angeles, or San Francisco, certainly-a lot of people hate Bush, but no one really likes Kerry. No one really feels they have a sense of who he is." That was how Martin Peretz, Cambridge resident, editor in chief of The New Republic , Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-"Cambridge here is not unusual. It mirrors New York and Los Angeles, or San Francisco, certainly-a lot of people hate Bush, but no one really likes Kerry. No one really feels they have a sense of who he is." That was how Martin Peretz, Cambridge resident, editor in chief of The New Republic, part-time Read More
Recently Rebecca Hackemann, a 32-year-old artist, had a distressing third date with a banker type she'd met on Nerve.com. He flipped out when Ms. Hackemann showed up 20 minutes late after some trouble on the subway. "You know, you just can't be late like this," whined the athletic, 42-year-old fellow after she had sat down Read More
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 may have focused feverish attention on the alleged axis of evil between the Bush family and the Saudis, with inferences about their business connections drawn largely from Craig Unger's book House of Bush, House of Saud .
But coziness with the Saudis is a bipartisan phenomenon. Once it emerged that the majority Read MoreA banner with Bill Clinton's book-jacket head shot-defiant, mischievous, self-satisfied-hung between the Ionic columns in the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum on June 21 as 1,000-odd guests circulated below.
Never had the stately Met felt more like a campaign stop. The crowd was racially diverse, star-studded and overwhelmingly political. Local politicians, operatives, lobbyists and former Read MoreC HICAGO, ILL.-After several years in which the collective mood was distinctly logy, the publishing world snapped out of it at this year's BookExpo America. A "Happy Days Are Here Again" vibe suffused the party-heavy industry convention, at which publishers gather annually to woo booksellers and schmooze each other. The festivities began Thursday with a Read More
The cardinal rule to leading a happy life is that you must never, under any circumstances, Google yourself." Newly minted New Yorker staff writer Caitlin Flanagan-provocatrice, chronicler of contemporary domestic life, self-described anti-feminist-was speaking on the phone from her home in Los Angeles.
She was discussing what she has learned in the aftermath of her controversial Read More"Way to go!" That was how the writer and critic Lee Siegel greeted the news that, come September, The New York Times will be dissolving its Saturday Arts & Ideas section and incorporating "ideas" stories into the rest of the paper.
Mr. Siegel is not alone in feeling vindicated by the section's imminent demise. Since its Read MoreThe sun was shining on the morning of April 20 as about 30 striking Columbia graduate students drank coffee and ate bagels behind a blue police barricade outside the main campus gate on 116th Street and Broadway.
It was the second day of their strike. Some of the university's regular faculty had moved their classes off-campus Read More
