Dora Levy Mossanen, 01.08.2011

Best-selling novelist of "Harem" and "Courtesan"

A good friend of mine asked me to read an article published on November 10, 2010 in Bazaar titled: The Peach Smoothie, The hottest new spa service tak...

Judith Acosta, 01.05.2011

Judith is the the author of The Next Osama and co-author of Verbal First Aid.

Being a therapist is not too different in some ways from being a copywriter, when you think about it. It's all about understanding people, their motivations, habits and triggers.

James Napoli, 01.05.2011

Satirist

I, God, want to be a better listener, but sometimes I get so busy I can't tell the OMG in a prayer for help from the OMG in an orgasm. Makes for some awkward visitations.

Vicki Larson, 01.04.2011

Journalist, daydreamer, freelance columnist

I'll be the first to admit that I didn't know much about marriage when I said "I do" the first time...

Michele Weiner-Davis, 01.03.2011

Author, relationship expert

Here's to making 2011 a breakthrough year in your marriage. Go here to ...

Kate Monro, 01.03.2011

As Naomi stands in the warm morning light, just outside the back packer's hotel where she has parked her virginity, she finds the intimacy that she was looking for.

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love, 01.04.2011

Executive Director, Soulforce

Look for a church that is out of step with a homophobic, sexist, racist culture where everyone looks and sounds alike. There you will find Christ.

Vicki Larson, 12.28.2010

Journalist, daydreamer, freelance columnist

I was at a party, the kind where bosoms, booze and mouths overflowed. There wasn't much happening with my bosom, but my then-husband's mouth was going for it.

Dan Persons, 12.28.2010

Film Journalist

In the place of a Cinefantastique Podcast in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010, we give you a Cinefantastique Post-Mortem in which we discuss doing a show in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010.

Stefan Sirucek, 12.23.2010

Independent journalist

"Brevity is the soul of wit." - Hamlet Since 2009 the website Texts From Last Night has collected a million Facebook fans, over a billion page views ...

Meredith Fineman, 12.22.2010

fiftyfirstjdates.com

So apparently the supermarket is a good place for young people to meet other young people. According to Patti Stanger, Our Lady of Pink Office Motifs,...

Melanie Benjamin, 12.20.2010

Author, "Alice I Have Been"

Even though I still sometimes sigh when a reader insists I've written something that I know, in my heart, I absolutely did not, I don't argue. Instead, I remind myself how very, very lucky I am that people are reading my book and talking about it.

Dan Persons, 12.21.2010

Film Journalist

In the latest episode of the "The Cinefantastique Podcast" Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons attempt to build their own consensual reality after a viewing of "Tron: Legacy".

Dan Persons, 12.17.2010

Film Journalist

Having survived the rocky shoals of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons decid...

Courtney Cook, 12.16.2010

writing, books, motherhood, new media, music, love, art, beauty, truth, etc.

When I was thirty and just out of my first marriage I moved with my two children to a teaching and dormitory faculty job at a prep school in New England.

Soren Gordhamer, 12.13.2010

He is the author of Wisdom 2.0 and host of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference

This is our challenge: to live consciously connected, and create a world that is as wise in inner technologies of mindfulness, wisdom and compassion as it is developed in the external technologies.

Marian Salzman, 12.12.2010

President of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR

The dizziest heights of political, corporate and academic power are still be occupied by men -- but for how much longer, and with what effects on classroom, boardroom and (Senate) cloakroom?

Artlog, 12.09.2010

Blogger, Artlog.com

The NYC art scene is back in full swing: you can eat dinner amidst biblical and art historical allusions or play a larger-than-life video game.

Suzanne Morrison, 12.08.2010

Author, Yoga Bitch

Christmas is the time for 19th century novels, especially of the English variety. I've always hated them. The Brits, I decided at 13, were frustrated, neutered people. I didn't want to visit England, for fear my genitals would wither and harden like a dried pomegranate.

Elizabeth B. Wydra, 12.07.2010

Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center

After a marathon argument lasting more than two hours on Monday, at least one thing seems clear: Prop. 8 will likely not survive its journey through the federal courts in California.

Dr. Logan Levkoff, 12.07.2010

Sexologist and AASECT-certified sexuality educator

Judging by the MPAA's ratings, brutality is apparently fine for children to see with an "adult" in tow, but sex within the context of a burgeoning relationship is not.