Juice!
UnBeige, the design web site, calls Rogues’ Gallery a “wonderfully juicy tell-all about the Metropolitan Museum… highly recommended if you like reading about how major museums and/or rich people operate.” The book-that-must-not-be-mentioned aka the book-that-won’t-go-away also returned to the Bestseller List at Book Soup in LA this week at #9, so apparently some people do […]
Mehle Culpa
The Metropolitan Museum has still not come forward with a response to my request that they identify alleged misinformation in Rogues’ Gallery, but last night at a party, the legendary gossip-and-society columnist Aileen “Suzy” Mehle pointed an error out to me — so again, I’m correcting it (here and in subsequent editions of the book). […]
Rogues’ Gallery LIVE at NYPL
Sometimes, things change for the better. This is one of them times. I will be speaking about Rogues’ Gallery at 5PM tomorrow (Wednesday) at the new Grand Central branch of the New York Public Library — yes, the New York Public Library. Howzabout that? It’s at 135 East 46th St. (between Third and Lex) on […]
See You On The Radio
Travel Detective Peter Greenberg‘s SSI Radio show Worldwide just broadcast an interview about what Greenberg calls “the really controversial, must-read” Rogues’ Gallery. Author Michael Gross “is legendary for being the author who peels back all the layers of society and tells you what really goes on behind closed doors,” Greenberg says. Listen to it here.
Liz Smith: The Last(?) Last Word on the Last Mrs. Astor
It’s too bad Liz Smith‘s column no longer appears in a New York newspaper. Her pillar in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune was a direct hit on the last nail in Brooke Astor’s coffin. “Mrs. Astor would have given up all she owned not to have had this blot on her escutcheon,” Smith says. “It’s true, Brooke […]
R.I.P. Dietrich von Bothmer
Dietrich von Bothmer, the curator emeritus of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rhodes scholar and Bronze Star recipient for bravery in the South Pacific in World War II, died on Monday at Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 91 years old and had been in failing health for some time. Bothmer […]
“Delicious dish” delights Miss Rosen
Sara Rosen, the powerhouse downtown publishing diva, has just posted an interview with me about Rogues’ Gallery, which she deems “magnificent,” on her new blog, Miss Rosen.
The Last Word on the Last Mrs. Astor
As he has done before, David Patrick Columbia has come to some contrarian conclusions today on New York Social Diary about the close of the trial of Brooke Astor’s only child Anthony Marshall. Readers of this blog likely already know that I agree with him. “This was a household, a life, which was about the […]
“Enlightening… persuasive,” says The Economist’s More Intelligent Life
Art historian Avis Berman, author of Rebels on Eighth Street, reviews Rogues’ Gallery today in “Art Museum Confidential”, on The Economist’s More Intelligent Life web site. Calling the book “enlightening” and “persuasive,”, she adds, “Gross is to be congratulated for the ingenuity of his research… Gross gets it right. After 140 years in existence, the […]
Book Soup Will Survive
The Los Angeles Times reports that a buyer has been found for Book Soup in West Hollywood, one of the greatest independent bookstores still standing. In a word: Huzzah!