By Alexandra Wolfe 12/23/02 12:00am

There Goes the East Side!

The festive wooden reindeer in the front window kept silent vigil as the bundled up shoppers shuffled in and out of the narrow Madison Avenue Bookshop on Saturday, Dec. 14. Inside, women in fur coats, hats and wraps, and men in Barbour coats flipped through Gardens by the Sea , Best of Flair and other Read More

By Cornel Bonca 12:00am

Her Slow-Motion Awakening: Kept Woman Breaks Free at Last

Her Slow-Motion Awakening: Kept Woman Breaks Free at Last Because She Is Beautiful , by Cameron Dougan. AtRandom.com, 319 pages, e-book $9.95; paperback $19.

Cameron Dougan set himself a daunting task when he put at the center of his first novel a gorgeous kept woman who runs around Manhattan trailing clouds of perfume from Bloomie’s. Read More