Town & Country & Secret Societies
Thanks to Town & Country for quoting me in its new issue in a story on secret societies and eating clubs in Ivy universities: “Walking by and looking at those buildings can’t help but tickle your curiousity.”
WASPs on Park
Park’s spring 2024 issue features an excerpt from Flight of the WASP on Whitney Tower, Jr., a descendant of the leader of the Plymouth Colony, the founder of one of America’s greatest Gilded Age fortunes, and one of Roman Catholicism’s only American saints. He was no saint. Read it here.
By Jove! Casamigos Comes to Florida
Will Discovery Land Company, whose founder Mike Meldman is most famous for the tequila brand he started with George Clooney and Rande Gerber, successfully update the gated community? They’re about to try that in Hobe Sound, where the Jupiter Island Club once set the gold standard–and the inappropriate were expelled (though the black cashmere sweaters […]
Au Revoir, Claude Montana
Claude Montana, an eccentric giant of French fashion in the late 20th Century, who later became reclusive, has died at 76. I profiled him in 1989 and you can read the story here.
At long last, audiobook
On February 27, Tantor will release the audiobook of Flight of the WASP. It’s now available for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I did not narrate, but that’s probably for the best. And coincidentally, in the better late department, Influencer magazine has shined a spotlight on the book in its Winter 2024 issue. […]
Cheney-Gross: That’s the Ticket
Now in its sixth week on the Palm Beach Bestseller List, Flight of the WASP drops to the #2 non-fiction position today, just behind Liz Cheney. I can live with that!
Palm Perfect: #1
Flight of the WASP remains #2 on the Palm Beach bestseller list this week, making it the town’s #1 non-fiction bestseller. Thanks to all who are keeping this trip into American history aloft!
R.I.P. Alice Mason, 100
I’m quoted in today’s New York Times obituary of Alice Mason, the real estate broker and hostess. For lesser beings like me, an invitation to one of her dinner parties was a signal of, if not acceptance, then a certain achievement. I still recall my thrill when I saw fury in the eyes of the […]
A Confederate Descendant in 740 Park
John Thain‘s financial acumen helped him win jobs running the New York Stock Exchange and Merrill Lynch but it didn’t make him lucky in real estate at the legendary 740 Park cooperative. Thain bought Enid Annenberg Haupt’s jewel box penthouse on the building’s 17th floor in 2006 for $27.5 million, listed it for sale in […]
Cruising altitude
Sit back and enjoy the read. Flight of the WASP is holding steady and now at #2 on both key Palm Beach bestseller lists.