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Joseph Olshan

By Joseph Olshan 11/10/97 12:00am

Two Memoirs, One Self-Involved, The Other, Self-Realized

The Year of Reading Proust , by Phyllis Rose. Scribner’s, 268 pages, $23.

Wait Till Next Year , by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 261 pages, $25.

Phyllis Rose waited until she was in her 50′s to read Remembrance of Things Past . In her new memoir, The Year of Reading Proust Read More

Betabeat

Get Ready To Chuck Talk and Text For Data-Only Cell Phone Plans Spotted: FTC Chairman Grabs a Bite With a Google Exec Facebook Opens Policy Changes to a User Vote

PolitickerNY

Ed Towns to Officially Endorse Charles Barron Weekend Roundup: Towns for Barron; Debating Sugar; McCotter’s White Flag Tweets From The Trail: 90′s Nostalgia

GalleristNY

SculptureCenter’s Bill Bollinger–Filled Annex Will Close Early Roberta Smith Thinks of Herself as ‘Just Another Vote’Check Out David Zwirner’s Basel Catalogue

Velvet Roper

The CO’s Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants The CO’s Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants Iris Apfel: A 90-Year-Old Style Icon on Wearing Jeans and Being a Somewhat Reluctant Subject of a Forthcoming Maysles Doc

Media

Bill Clinton, Media Critic BAD! Major Editorial Layoffs Hit GOOD Ctrl-F Error Defaces Classic Work of Literature

Transom

So That's Why They Tore Down the Sundrome: JetBlue's New T5i and Why JFK Now Has Only Six Terminals Fun: An Interactive Map of Every NYPD Stop from 2011, By Race and Neighborhood!The Secrets of Cameo Appearances on Gossip Girl: Exposed!

Culture

Rachel Lee Hovnanian Serves Up 'Mud Pie' at Leila Heller Gallery Jeff Koons Will Teach Public School Next Week Anne Hathaway's Embarrassingly Sincere Karaoke Song Makes It Into Les Mis Trailer (Video)

Wall Street

So Now We're Blaming JPMorgan's $2.3 Billion Trading Loss on Biology Berkshire Scion Peter Buffett Bails Out of One Madison for an Extra $750,000 Secular or Spiritual? Nomura Shareholders to Vote Bathroom Policy at Annual Meet

Real Estate

So That's Why They Tore Down the Sundrome: JetBlue's New T5i and Why JFK Now Has Only Six Terminals The CO's Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants Berkshire Scion Peter Buffett Bails Out of One Madison for an Extra $750,000

Opinion

On, Wisconsin! Progress on Governors Island The Pension Crisis

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Commercial Observer

The CO’s Big Night Hanging With Scott Rechler and The New York Giants John Grotto Parts Ways With The Durst Organization President Obama to Celebrate Flag Day at 1 World Trade Center

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