A new Carnet de Voyage
My third Carnet de Voyage post for Palmer is now online. It announces the opening of the Elizabeth Cord Garden in Millbrook, New York, a memorial to his late daughter (pictured in a self-portrait) that is the latest creation of artist and designer Barry Kieselstein-Cord.
Who’s Hiding on Jekyll?
Join me on Jekyll Island, where the Gilded Age grandees plotted and partied, in the pages of the new issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader, and now unlocked for online readers.
Carnet de Voyage #2: Planet Planeta
My second travel dispatch for Palmer is live today. It’s about a new world of wine and and hospitality in the Old World, created by the Sicilian Planeta family. The photo shows their Foresteria hotel.
Flight of the WASP to land in Newport
I’ll be at Newport, Rhode Island’s Redwood Athenaeum, the country’s oldest continuously operating library, on July 31st to give the fourth annual John J. Slocum Jr. Memorial Lecture. I follow Christopher Buckley, Bob Woodward, and 740 Park’s Steve Schwarzman to the Slocum podium–and I’m honored. I’m not as rich as they are, but promise the […]
It’s My Tetralogy
Publishers Weekly has announced my next book, fourth in a series of social-archaeological excavations of luxury real estate. A Caribbean cousin of 740 Park, Unreal Estate and House of Outrageous Fortune, it’s the story of the island of St. Barthélemy, which I’ve been visiting since the late 1980s and I couldn’t be more excited about […]
From Palm Beach to the World
Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader is awarding readers with an upgrade of its travel coverage, my new Carnet de Voyage column, which launched today with a story extolling my favorite restaurant in Rome–one notably free of tourists. Also today, the latest print issue of Palmer was released with my story on the past glories of […]
On the Road Again
The second summer On the Road issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader drops next week, and includes my story looking back at the grand Gilded Age resorts of the American East Coast, and forward to their potential in this new Gilded Age. The story focuses on Jekyll Island, now in its fourth incarnation (below) […]
Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan
Today is Bob Dylan’s 83rd Birthday. My photo-biography of him was published in 1978, when pictures of him were rare. Nowadays, they are all over the internet, but I still like dead tree media.
Revenge, on the Chilly Side, for Tony Marshall
In today’s Airmail newsletter, I pull back the covers to reveal the posthumous vanity press memoir of Anthony Marshall, son of Brooke Astor and convicted felon. Read it if you have “ a taste for blackened sacred cow.”
German Coup: The 740 Park Connection
Nine far-right plotters accused of seeking to overthrow the German governmenty went on trial in Stuttgart today, including their leader, Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss. “In all, 27 people face charges, including high treason and belonging to a terror organization, but they will be tried in three separate courtrooms in different cities,” CNN reports. One of Prince […]