“Names are named,” says George Christy
The Beverly Hills Courier’s George Christy adds to his previous praise of Unreal Estate in his latest colum. It’s “a richly readable history, alive with snap-crackle-pop gossip about our local czars and czarinas.”
Bi-Coastal, Bi-Curious
After spending last week in L.A., I look at life from both coasts now in my Crains New York Business column this week, and even find a reason to quote Neil Diamond.
“Shocking things,” says Conde Nast Traveler
Conde Nast Traveler’s new Daily Traveler site looks at Unreal Estate today. You can read it here.
GQ calls Unreal Estate a “best new book.”
GQ.com groups Unreal Estate with Steve Jobs, John Grisham, and John Updike in “The Best New Books of November.” “Michael Gross has been chronicling the real estate habits of the moneyed set for some time; at this point, if anyone’s an expert at it, it’s him,” they say. And Fishbowl LA calls the book “wonderful” […]
Sour grapes over Unreal Estate?
Stewart and Lynda Resnick‘s slam of Unreal Estate gets a further airing in The Daily News Gatecrasher column today. The “pomegranate juice magnates…seem to be suffering from a case of sour grapes,” writes Frank DiGiacomo, following up on last week’s Los Angeles Times Culture Monster item on the book. “Although Gross depicts both positive and […]
“A gripping picture of what made Los Angeles what it is today,” says Huffington Post
“Billionaire brawls and unresolved scandals permeate Beverly Hills, and [Michael] Gross has made it his mission to expose it all,” writes Lucy Blodgett in The Huffington Post. “In Unreal Estate, the New York-born social historian takes on the Western Frontier like a modern day cowboy — seeking, searching and taking no prisoners.”
A “gilded tale of…dreamers and schemers,” says Angeleno
Angeleno magazine is the latest to chime in on Unreal Estate. “Breezily dishing illuminating dirt on infidelities and bankruptcies, as well as more consequential bonbons,” writes Gary Baum, the book reveals “a century of aspiration, desperation and scandal.” (Turn to page 76 in the above-linked digital edition.) Also, Curbed LA offers its latest bon-bon from […]
“Fun and juicy,” says Curbed LA
Curbed Los Angeles is running a series of posts about Unreal Estate this week, “dishing all the dirt on the births of Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills,” writes editor Adrian Glick Kudler. The first tid-bit is here.
On-Sale Day: Unrealer and Unrealer
Unreal Estate went on sale today and the web was alive with comment on it. On Whom You Know, blogger Peachy Deegan calls the book “a truly original history of a place that is not known for being historical….pearls up to here with the most scandalous gossip paired with the most ambitious American dreams of […]
Pub Day Feels Unreal
Today is publication day of Unreal Estate (at right, on the front table at Crawford Doyle Booksellers), which has already cracked Amazon’s Top 1,000 Books list–but still needs all the help it can get. I hope you’ll read about it here, buy a copy, post and tweet about it, comment on it, and maybe buy […]