Author, Uncovered
My author page –complete with a Proust Questionnaire-like interview–popped up on the web site of my new publisher, Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books, today. Please visit.
A Blast From the Past:The Guys in the (New York) Dolls
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of the New York Dolls debut record, England’s Guardian has resurrected a profile of the band (that I wrote as a neophyte journalist in summer 1973 for England’s New Musical Express) for its weekly “From Rock’s Backpages” feature.
John Casablancas, Elite Models founder, R.I.P.
John Casablancas, 70, the agent who invented the modern fashion modeling business at Elite Models in the 1970s, died last night after a long, courageous bout with cancer, in Brazil where he lived with his second wife and their family. “He was the most magical man in this business; definitely a prince,” says photographer Jacques […]
Isn’t it rich? Extell on Extell’s excellence
According to this Extell promo video, “the buildings that shaped this famed skyline”–the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building–are the context in which to view the real estate development company’s towers like the Aldyn and the as-yet-unenclosed One57. “We aspire to create a reputation as the very best,” intones the narrator as computer-graphics-enhanced images of […]
Message in a cyber-bottle: Rogues’ Gallery reviewed.
Four years post-publication, Rogues’ Gallery endures and has just been reviewed in The Epoch Times. James Grundvig says the book is “a tour-de-force” full of “dead-on observations” that “brings [to] life an unseen dimension of New York City in the show and lore of high society.”
If I Were A Carpenter’s House (I’d be worth $1.9 million)
The Sag Harbor cottage that I profile in my latest Unreal Estate column in the July issue of Avenue on the Beach is a shingled exemplar of upward mobility, having passed from the hands of a carpenter to those of an angel investor over the course of 150-or-so years. Condi Rice makes a cameo appearance, […]
House of Outrageous Fortune: Now available for pre-orders
House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address is now available for pre-orders on Amazon by clicking here. Publication date is March 11, 2014. I’ll post a bn.com link as soon as it, too, becomes available.
A Modest Proposal (for added airline income)
That’s me, at right, at Antonio Lamela and Richard Roger’s amazing Madrid Barajas Airport yesterday, en route to London and thence home to New York. I look happy, don’t I? I wasn’t, by the time we got home. Seated behind us on the trans-Atlantic flight was a mother with a small child who was old […]