A new hat
In today’s New York Post, Jennifer Gould Keil announces that I’ve joined Avenue Magazine as Real Estate Editor, to write a monthly column on….ta-da…luxury residential real estate. A stretch, I know.
Unreal Estate a 13-week bestseller
It’s back up to #12 on the Los Angeles Times non-fiction bestseller list for Unreal Estate this week. It’s now been a bestseller for 13 weeks.
The 800-pound gorilla on Fifth Avenue
What’s the latest cause celebre at 1000 Fifth Avenue, I ask in my latest Crain’s New York Business Column. Is it (right-wing) donor David Koch? Or the Metropolitan Museum’s imperial mind-set?
“Positively Dickensian,” says the Los Angeles Review of Books
The Los Angeles Review of Books has just posted a long, thoughtful and fair consideration of Unreal Estate. Even though it’s not entirely positive, it is the kind of review most writers hope to receive now and then, but do all too rarely, especially nowadays when ever-fewer media outlets do that job. The site, which […]
Back in the soup
It’s back to #2 on the Book Soup bestseller list for Unreal Estate this week. Mmmmm. Good.
Back in the L.A. groove
After a brief absence, Unreal Estate returned to the Los Angeles Times bestseller list today, to make its run there a neat three months long.
Unreal Estate Live! at the Pacific Design Center
On Monday February 13th, I spoke about Unreal Estate, the book, and the houses that inspired it, at the Aaroe Architectural Forum at the Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center. My comments about a Mark refer to Mark David, aka The Real Estalker, who introduced me at the event but is not […]
Unreal Revival
I should visit L.A. more often. Unreal Estate today vaulted back to #5 on the Book Soup bestseller list.
Schedule change
My talk at the Beverly Hills Women’s Club on Sunday February 12th has been cancelled, but I will still speak on Monday February 13th at the Aaeroe Architectural Forum at the Pacific Design Center. See the Unreal Estate page for details on how to reserve. The event is almost at capacity, so book soon to […]