Gross and Grosser?
Jamie Malanowski wades into the Gross muck with a comment on the “pyromaniac” Ann Coulter and her misbegotten column mixing me up with another similarly named writer. “A minor incident, but it says a lot about Hit-And-Run Coulter and her fans,” he decides. After seven days of waiting for Coulter to correct her mistake, I’m […]
Conflicts? I have a few. But then again, they may be research.
I make my debut in Crain’s New York Business on Monday with a column on the war between Pinch Sulzberger‘s New York Times and Rupert Murdoch‘s Wall Street Journal. A paragraph about my personal relationships with the subjects got cut from the column for space, so here it is: I am well-versed in this story. […]
740 Park Still Tops
How do I love Kindle? Let me count the ways: Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,893 Paid in Kindle Store #1 in Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > History & Periods #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Urban #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle Books > […]
An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Dear Ann Coulter, Your web site doesn’t offer a way to contact you; mine does. That’s why I’m writing you this way. You made a whopping big (though seemingly small) mistake in your column yesterday and I’m paying for it and I’m disgusted and so I am writing to ask you to help me stop […]
Just when I thought I was out…
… they drag me back in. On October 6th, at 6:30 PM, I’ll be speaking about Rogues’ Gallery at the Junior League of the City of New York, 130 East 80th Street. It’s open to members and their friends.
Naomi en espanol
Chile’s Caras Magazine considers the case of Naomi Campbell in its current issue — and quotes the author of a certain book about models in the lede. Spanish speakers and Google translate users can read it here.
Attention Sarah Palin fans (and hataz)!!!!
I am not the magazine writer Michael Joseph Gross so please don’t send me love or hate letters for him. Speaking of which, attention Fox News fans: Neither am I the lawyer Michael Gross who sometimes appears on Fox News, so please don’t send me mail meant for him, either. Oh, and guys? You’ve got […]
Reading List
D Magazine in Dallas reports that Roger Horchow of the Horchow catalogs has very good taste in books.
Splitsville, Styles-style
Styles of the Times has just posted a piece on the Peter Brant-Stephanie Seymour divorce that is, alas typically, a day late and a dollar short. Anyone seeking more telling background on this fiercely ambitious and oddly-well-matched pair may want to dip into Model, where the compelling Mr. Brant’s criminal record (which goes unmentioned in […]
Rogues’ Gallery a #1 Bestseller
Just back from a long trip to faraway places and with internet access restored noticed that not only is Rogues’ Gallery the #4 bestselling paperback non-fiction book at Bookhampton this week, it is the #1 bestseller that is not about the Hamptons. So thanks again, discerning East End readers. “Books won’t stay banned. They won’t […]