“You see those extras?” said the producer, indicating a group of nubile young women standing a few feet away. “They’re yours for the asking. Just point to the one you like and I’ll have her sent to your room.”
This was in the summer of 2007, and we were on the Read More
What We’ve Lost , by Graydon Carter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pages, $25.
As a Vanity Fair contributor, I had the perfect rebuttal whenever Graydon Carter hassled me about a deadline: What about the book he was supposed to be writing for the British firm Chatto & Windus? By the time I started Read More
My moment had arrived. I was sitting in a Los Angeles television studio waiting to be interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. For a struggling author on a book tour, this was Ground Zero. If I could only be sufficiently entertaining for the next five minutes, I might be catapulted into the big league. Who knows what Read More
Thursday, Sept. 26- My arrival in the nation’s capital coincides with what’s being billed as the largest demonstration in Washington since Vietnam. I knew my book wouldn’t be very popular outside New York, but this is ridiculous. Actually, it’s something to do with the I.M.F. and the World Bank, both of which are holding their Read More
“Hello? I’m looking for Margie Beck. Do you have any idea where I might find her?”
It was Sunday night, less than 24 hours to go before my book party, and I was desperately trying to get in touch with a woman I’d heard about who ran a celebrity look-alike agency in Manhattan. It was Read More
