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Nancy Jo Sales

Knead Beats Love With a Stranger in a Cheap Hotel

He was a stout Israeli, 55, sitting at the end of the bar at a San Francisco restaurant called Scalia’s. He wore gray flannel pants and a striped, Chiclets-colored shirt, and he had on many tangled necklaces, all made of tortoise shell; one was a Mogen David. It was about midnight; I was staying in Read More

No More Grand Hotel For Contessa

For the last seven years, my cousin Lisa has lived at the Hotel Beverly, that tall neo-Gothic building with the aquamarine sign at the corner of 50th Street and Lexington Avenue. If Lisa had been paying the day rate for her stay, her checkout bill would be well over a million dollars (not including room Read More