FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN: MY LIFE AND TIMES AS A WEATHERMAN
By Cathy Wilkerson
Seven Stories Press, 422 pages, $26.95
Cathy Wilkerson opens her memoir literally flying through the air inside her parent’s Greenwich Village townhouse—massive dynamite explosions are ripping through its four floors. Just a few seconds earlier on that March Read More
There was a time when suffering for your art often meant just that: years of obscurity punctuated by worried phone calls from one’s parents asking if you were getting enough to eat. But not now.
“The art world today is much more of a business than it was in the 70’s,” said Mirabelle Marden, the Read More
Just how powerful is The New York Times? That’s the question asked by one of the paper’s own senior correspondents, Anthony DePalma, in his new book, The Man Who Invented Fidel. In conservative circles, and particularly among older Cuban exiles in Miami, Herbert Matthews has long been viewed as the scoop-hungry reporter who was charmed Read More
Just how powerful is The New York Times? That’s the question asked by one of the paper’s own senior correspondents, Anthony DePalma, in his new book, The Man Who Invented Fidel. In conservative circles, and particularly among older Cuban exiles in Miami, Herbert Matthews has long been viewed as the scoop-hungry reporter who was charmed Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of pens furiously scribbling across checkbooks. But inside this delicious bubble, if you’re one of this season’s art-world “It” boys, you should at least be careful to whom you give your cell number. “Bianca Jagger Read More
