The Rogues of Sag Harbor
The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, Long Island, has hit upon a unique way to raise funds — selling tickets to dinners organized around new books chosen by the dinner hosts. For the last night of its fourth annual One for the Books dinner, October 24th, it has included Rogues’ Gallery in its […]
“Money Makes Money…
… and the money money makes makes more money,” Benjamin Franklin once said. That’s certainly true of Steven Mnuchin, the banking son of a Goldman Sachs banker, who has put his A-Line apartment at 740 Park on the market — sort of, it’s not on his broker’s web site — for $37.5 million and inspired […]
Astor Trial Ends: Guilty As Charged
A jury just found Brooke Astor’s only child, Anthony Marshall, guilty on most counts of the indictment against him for looting his mother’s estate. But the story is far from over. An appeal is likely, my sources say, and a Westchester court still has to sort out competing claims regarding the late philanthropist’s estate. So […]
PEN vs. Libel Sword
The British chapter of P.E.N. has issued a strong condemnation of that nation’s Draconian libel laws — pointing out that because of them, many important books are simply not being published there. “The real victims here are authors and readers, who are missing out on important non-fiction stories about global finance and corruption in high […]