Model: The e-book, at last!
Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women will be republished in an updated trade paperback edition (with its original award-winning jacket design restored) on September 13, 2011. Even better, the bestseller that the New York Times Book Review called “the definitive work of the Barbizon school” will finally be available as as e-book. You can […]
“Real estate porn, West Coast style”
The cat’s out of the bag. Curbed National’s chief real estate savant Sarah Firshein just revealed the jacket of Unreal Estate — and wheedled out me the first hints of what’s inside, even as I’m still knee-deep in answering queries from the copy editor. You’ll get no more out of me. So go there instead. […]
Money can’t buy you class
In my Crains New York Business column this week, I wonder why condos are worth more than co-ops. In dollars, that is. UPDATE: Curbed New York is quite amused by this column, and uses it as an excuse to say that 740 Park is “the only [book] that matters” on the subject of New York […]
Attention K-Art Shoppers!
Caravaggio at K-Mart prices? Value-priced Velazquez? Metropolitan Museum of Art memberships have just gone on sale… and you can get fifteen months for the price of twelve. Boasts the Met: “You’ll enjoy outstanding benefits including unlimited free admission,” which is guaranteed to all by the museum’s lease, but never mind, “Members-only events, discounts in The […]
Fierce Fouls Fifth
This week in Crain’s New York Business, I turn my nose up at the side-effects of Fierce by Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ms. Jackson (if you’re nasty)
My review of Janet Jackson‘s new book, True You, in tomorrow’s Book World in The Washington Post, calls it “a mash-up of celebrity tell-nothing, dysfunction memoir and Oprah-ready self-help.” And that’s just the first paragraph.
Sibling Revelry Pt. II
My sister Jane is interviewed in today’s WWD about her new book, A Bittersweet Season: Caring For Our Aging Parents — And Ourselves.”
Speaking of Sean Parker…
… there is a really great profile of him in the FT this week.
Back in the New York Groove
Maybe you can go home again. After more than a decade, I’m back in New York magazine today, or more precisely, on its Daily Intel blog, with the back story of Napster founder Sean Parker‘s new home in Greenwich Village. The $20 million townhouse at 40 West 10th Street (above) is a perfect fit for […]
Roll Another One
Psychoactive substance advocate Robert Stiller, co-founder of E-ZWider rolling papers and former Green Mountain coffee kingpin, has bought Tom Brady‘s three-bedroom condo at Time-Warner Center, says curbed.com. More than a decade ago, Stiller gave me an interview about growing up a baby boomer. He wasn’t the richest man in Vermont then. He’s not the richest […]