Author photos are never on oath, but George W.S. Trow’s make you wonder. Trow, who died last week in Naples at 63, possessed one of the more indescribable sensibilities to adorn The New Yorker, that most sensibility-driven of magazines. He was snob, moralist, wit, cultural critic, aesthete, nostalgist, lost boy, citizen. “Wonder was the grace Read More
The Sky Lobby of the Mandarin Oriental New York hotel on the 35th floor of the AOL Time Warner building faces north and east-away from the past-and as the clock approached 8 p.m. on Sept. 15, dozens of guests pressed themselves against the floor-to-ceiling windows in preparation for the big bang that would schedule the Read More
Exploding:
The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group , by
Stan Cornyn with Paul Scanlon. Harper Entertainment, 470 pages, $39.95.
Stan Cornyn started out writing liner notes for Sinatra, back
when the charts were crowded with the likes of Andy Williams and Steve &
Eydie-comfort music for adults who Read More
