Looking up with The Notorious DJT
This is my favorite pickup of my Daily Beast piece on Donald Trump’s model parties from Monday. Click the image!
“Avenue snags author Michael Gross”
Keith Kelly of the New York Post is first with the news that I’ve been named Editor-in-Chief of Avenue Magazine, effective immediately. Here’s yesterday’s official announcement: AVENUE, New York City’s original society magazine, has named Michael Gross its editor-in-chief, effective tomorrow. Founded in 1976 by Judy Price as a controlled-circulation magazine, and originally distributed exclusively […]
Daily Dose of Donald: Daily Kos Edition
My reporting on Donald Trump over the years has jumped the fence into the political arena with the publication of “We All Knew About the Trafficking”-The Untold Story of Trump Model Management (Part 1)” by a writer calling herself SwedishJewfish on dailykos.com.
Focus + Funny Face = Avedon Revealed
UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The landmark Cameo Cinema in St. Helena, in California’s Napa Valley, has just announced that its first Film & Fashion series will launch with a screening of Funny Face and a discussion of the great musical’s back story, as told in Focus. The film, directed by Stanley Donen, stars […]
Is being too early the same as being wrong?
Regardless, I’m still happy to report that Bob Dylan, subject of my first hardcover book in 1978, has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In a lovely coincidence, the cover photograph of Dylan is by Jerry Schatzberg, who is one of the photographers featured in my latest book, Focus.
Daily Dose of Donald: On humility and self-awareness. Really.
This excerpt from my 1999 interview with Donald Trump for My Generation seems both poignant and pathetic in light of events of the last few days. “You develop a sense of invincibility,” Trump told me. “You think you can do no wrong…You have all these guys who you pay money and they all say, “Don’t […]
Donald Trump and that $916 million tax loss
In his inimitable way, Donald Trump actually boasted about the huge 1995 tax loss reported in today’s New York Times, seventeen years ago. In an interview in 1999, Trump told me the following story, as recounted in my book My Generation: “I was in really deep shit,” Trump said. “You know, publicity is a funny […]
Focus comes to Newport, RI–and the oldest lending library in America
The Redwood Library and Athenænum’s Life of the Mind Salon Series for fall 2016 kicks off Wednesday night October 5th with a wine-and-cheese reception and discussion of Focus, beginning at 5:30 PM. It’s free for members, $10 for non-members. Seating is limited; call 401-847-0295, ext. 112 to make your reservation. Founded in 1747, the Redwood […]
The focus is on Focus next week
The focus will be on Focus next week at two events. On Tuesday, Sept. 27th, I’ll be speaking and signing books at the Port Washington Public Library. Click the link for details. Then, on Saturday October 1st, novelist and home-entertaining book author Holly Peterson and I appear at Rotisserie Georgette in midtown as part of […]
Vague-ish
Yesterday, I succumbed to a Vogue email inviting subscribers to download its latest iPad app and access exclusive digital-only content. How now. But one of the first articles that popped up in the app, “Kate Moss Isn’t the First Model to Run Her Own Agency,” inexplicably neglects several models who were no less than pioneers […]