#HOOF a bestseller
Just learned House of Outrageous Fortune came on the New Atlantic Indie Bestseller List last week at #10 after just one week on sale.
Al Jazeera America’s David Schuster interviews Michael Gross about House of Outrageous Fortune
“A who’s who of titans,” says Business Insider
“Michael Gross goes behind the scenes to tell the complete story of Fifteen,” writes Julie Zeveloff of Business Insider in 15 Outrageous Facts About 15 Central Park West, The World’s Most Powerful Address. “From the building’s inception …to the battle over its unusual facade to the sparring among its strong-headed tenants, Gross makes the case […]
At long last, $100 million?
Arthur and Will Zeckendorf, developers of Fifteen Central Park West, have announced plans to market a $100 million penthouse at their next tower, 520 Park Avenue (rendering at right), a deal many years in the making, many details of which were first revealed in House of Outrageous Fortune. Read the Real Deal’s report on it […]
Message in an Apartment: More on Sting’s 15CPW Fling
As noted here last week, a publicist for the musician known as Sting (or Der Stingle, as I like to think of him, in tribute to an earlier crooner, the late Bing “Der Bingle” Crosby), took exception to the claim of a building employee, recounted in the first printing of House of Outrageous Fortune and […]
Pulitzer Prize-winner Manuela Hoelterhoff on House of Outrageous Fortune
“Michael Gross, an author with a delicate appreciation for bloated egos and wealth, makes them glitter in ‘House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address.’ The intersecting strands of money, politics, greed, taste, ambition shine brightly.” Manuela Hoelterhoff, Bloomberg News
#HOOF in the news
Spring has sprung and Bloomberg News is blossoming with reports about House of Outrageous Fortune. Pimm Fox‘s Taking Stock segment (above) aired yesterday and today, Bloomberg’s Manuela Hoelterhoff has an interview with the author. And then there’s Dan Loeb, (the “famously fiery hedge fund hotshot,” in the words of Emily Smith of Page Six), who […]
Bloomberg does Outrageous
I was on Pimm Fox’s Taking Stock on Bloomberg today.
Goldilocks at The Economist: Is HOOF “just right”?
The Economist reviews House of Outrageous Fortune this week and finds it not gossipy enough (A-Rod‘s hookers apparently failing to satisfy, for once) yet simultaneously not serious enough, lacking in “serious” analysis of whether recent economist policy harmed the less well off while enriching 15CPW residents. But it does toss this tasty tid-bit into the […]
Goodbye, Dolly
Richard Johnson reports in the Post today on my talk at the Core Club on Tuesday night. I won’t confirm or deny that I was discussing the much-in-the-news real estate broker Dolly Lenz, who recently ankled Elliman to set up her own super-broker shop, when I referenced the story about Dan Loeb and Carl Icahn […]