Dissecting the Day's News
By Russ Smith, Ellen Willis, Nora Ephron, Kurt Andersen, Tamar Jacoby, Brent Staples, George Kelling, Ester R. Fuchs, Mim Udovitch, Mick Farren, Ted Rall, Joshua Quittner and Michelle SlatallaUpdated Wednesday, June 23, 1999, at 1:06 AM ETRuss Smith is the editor in chief and owner of
NYPress, the Manhattan weekly he founded in 1988. He writes the column "MUGGER" for the paper. Ellen Willis directs the cultural reporting and criticism program in the Department of Journalism at New York University. Her latest book,
Don't Think--Smile! Notes on a Decade of Denial will be published this fall. Nora Ephron is a screenwriter and director. Her films include
Sleepless in Seattle,
Michael,
and
You've Got Mail. Kurt Andersen, the author of
Turn of the Century, is now at work on his second novel. He's also the host of the public radio program
Studio 360. Tamar Jacoby is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration. Brent Staples is on the editorial board of the
New York Times and is a member of
Slate's book-reviewing team. Ester R. Fuchs is an associate professor of political science, director of the Barnard-Columbia Center for Urban Policy, and author of
Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago. Mim Udovitch has written about pop culture and other pre-millennial topics for
Esquire,
Rolling Stone, and the
New York Times Book Review. Mick Farren is a writer, musician, and author of the forthcoming novel
Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife.
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