One ingredient at a time, Edward Behr will change the way you eat for the better, but you have to be willing to sit up, take notes, and take your food seriously. Are you ready?
Lucas Wittmann is the former books editor at The Daily Beast.
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From Norman Rush’s new novel, 10 years in the making, to the best releases of early November, here are 21 must-reads.
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week. By Lucas Wittmann.
Newsweek/Daily Beast books editor Lucas Wittmann on Salman Rushdie’s memoir and other books that wowed him this year.
From what to get your bratty cousin to the perfect gift for Dad, herewith our ultimate gift guide of 15 astonishing, weird, and beautiful books.
From a debut about a wedding off Cape Cod to a biography of Julia Child, Jimmy So and Lucas Wittmann pick the best of the tropical season.
Novelist and wine poet Jay McInerney joins us on camera to taste wine, talk about what hipsters drink, and why Raymond Carver was not a sherry man. His new book on wine, The Juice, is out now.
From HHhH, a Holocaust novel about the impossibility of writing a Holocaust novel, to a memoir without a trace of self-aggrandizement by priest and politician Bob Massie.
India’s Tehelka Think Festival kicked off today, covering nanotechnology to satire. By Lucas Wittmann.