Wednesday, January 29, 2014, NY POST Page Six
Rushdie wins Uma’s challenge at star-studded literary cabaret
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February 2014
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014, WSJ Heard & Scene
‘Think-y Entertainment’ for New York’s Book-Loving Crowd
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014, EXAMINER
On the scene: Uma Thurman hosts House of Speakeasy Inaugural Gala
Read MoreBOOKTHEWRITER for the Perfect Book Group
Last month comedian Andy Borowitz lamented the irony that although we now live in an age of free content we sadly don’t live in an age of free food. Indeed, as seems to be the dominant model in a world of 99%ers and 1%ers, only the most commercially successful writers can really get by. Fortunately […]
Read MoreThe Real Count of Monte Cristo
“To remember a person is the most important thing in the novels of Alexandre Dumas,” writes Tom Reiss in the opening pages of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Black Count (Crown, 2012). “The worst sin anyone can commit is to forget.” It’s a sin Reiss cannot be accused of, for The Black Count is above all an act of memorial. Alex […]
Read MoreSeriously Entertaining Gala Sets Social Pages Alight
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” — Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice” (1923) So wrote Robert Frost in 1923, eerily prescient in his choice of imagery of this past Monday night. For inside the walls of City Winery NYC, as temperatures outside dipped into the low 20s, the House […]
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