The Weight of Public Opprobrium
With a verdict in the criminal trial of Brooke Astor’s son Anthony Marshall imminent, David Patrick Columbia’s New York Social Diary takes its latest contrarian’s look at the subject and at the unindicted yet publicly convicted co-conspirator, Marshall’s second wife, Charlene. “Whether you like to think of her that way [or] not, Brooke Astor, maybe […]
Soup’s On! (or, Revolution No. 9)
Rogues’ Gallery returns to the Book Soup (West Hollywood) bestseller list this week. A thousand thanks to the best l’il book store in Los Angeles.
Inflation at The Wall Street Journal
In late August, the real estate column in the Wall Street Journal (locked behind a firewall, so no link, sorry!) ran a notable sentence about the subject of my penultimate book, 740 Park. It was notable because in a mere twenty words, it contained five errors. As the self-appointed guardian of 740 facts, I penned […]
Will Wonders Never Cease?
The amazing persistence of Rogues’ Gallery in the marketplace is an endless source of delight. Now, even the daily New York Times — which, as many have noted, has never deigned to notice this book about a major local cultural institution, and mysteriously cancelled a publication-week review by Janet Maslin — is paying attention. Albeit […]
Tom’s Foolery
Back in May, shortly after Rogues’ Gallery was published, the Metropolitan Museum’s new director, “Tapestry Tom” Campbell, addressed the subject of the book at a meeting of the museum’s board of trustees and told them, according to the minutes, “It has not received much coverage.” He spoke too soon. A summary of commentary on the […]
You won’t read this in WWD…
… but Laura Hunt gave a great cocktail party in Dallas for Rogues’ Gallery on Wednesday night — and helloooooo.com has the photos the regular chroniclers of such fashionable events won’t dare run. The book that must-not-be-named was “embraced by Dallas,” the site says. And SFR International (it stands for Social and Financial Responsibility) covers […]
Where’s Your Beef?
In a review almost as long as Rogues’ Gallery itself, Oscar White Muscarella, a longtime curator at and gadfly within the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reports that at a May 12th, 2009 meeting of the Board of Trustees of the MMA, its new director, Thomas Campbell slammed the book as “a sardonic mixture of gossip […]
“A compelling portrait of New York”
“Michael Gross is an acclaimed cultural journalist and an incisive, skilled, gossip-driven chronicler of the fashion and society worlds,” writes Raymond Dowd in the New York Law Journal [subscription-only]. “He is fearlessly able to breach walls of secrecy and to nail down a story where no one wants to talk. As we move through the […]
The Hits Just Keep on Coming
In FYIDC, its insider’s guide, Washington Life magazine called Rogues’ Gallery “the ultimate insider’s look at the colorful characters who populate New York’s Metropolitan Museum.”
Dishing in Dallas
Today’s Dallas Morning News tips its hat at Rogues’ Gallery. The paper’s entertainment and society columnist Alan Peppard calls it “a dishy read about behind-the-scenes social and civic maneuvering of the moguls who shaped the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” I’ll be speaking next Thursday, September 17th, at a literary luncheon at the Adolphus hotel in […]