“Great dish,” says Headbutler.com
Jesse Kornbluth, an old friend, touts three books by old friends of his today on headbutler.com, leading with Unreal Estate, which he deems a page-turner. “Why didn’t today’s owners of the great LA estates get together and offer Gross a house of his own not to write the book?” he asks.
Connie Martinson gets Unreal
Clueless but kind friends often ask authors, “Why don’t you go on Oprah to promote your book?” Aside from the fact that Oprah is no longer on the air, when it came to authors she usually only called the fictional, the famous or the famously dysfunctional. Which is better than the TV shows that favor […]
It’s on the (best seller) list
Unreal Estate came on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list at #13 today. Unreal!
It’s a print thing
My publisher at Random House ran this ad for Unreal Estate in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times (click–perhaps a few times–to read it). Print lives!
Unreal Estate: Book Soup’s #2 bestseller
Unreal Estate stormed to the #2 spot on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list at Book Soup, the great independent bookstore on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, today. It’s also featured in this week’s Montecito Journal, where columnist Richard Mineards calls it “a page-turner.”
Unreal Estate is “a great read.” –New York Social Diary
Last week at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine, the City of Beverly Hills and the Friends of Greystone, one of the starring estates in Unreal Estate, co-hosted a launch party for the book. Today, New York Social Diary’s Nancy Stoddart covers the party and says, “Unreal Estate has it […]
Unreal in the News
The Sunday Daily News featured Unreal Estate yesterday in Sherryl Connelly‘s For Your Consideration column, alongside Stephen King and Bill Maher. “Very telling,” she said.
UnBeige. Unreal. Unbelievable.
“The latest dishy page-turner from Michael Gross,” says Stephanie Murg of the design blog UnBeige, is “a scandal-studded survey of 16 trophy estates in L.A.’s best neighborhoods.” Read our interview here.
“It’s Hollywood Babylon with bathrooms and fireplaces,” says David Lazarus of NPR’s KPCC
Click here to listen to the interview about Unreal Estate that shocked the little old ladies of Pasadena.
I Want Candy! A “juicy, secret history of L.A.’s wealthiest, glitziest, over-the-top enclaves.”
In “What To Read While You’re Hibernating,” Daily Candy, touts Unreal Estate. “You know you want to press your nose up against the windows of those fabulous Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, and Bel Air megamansions,” it says. “Author Michael Gross gets you access with his juicy, secret history of L.A.’s wealthiest, glitziest, over-the-top enclaves. Get […]