Now that HBO has hired Tina Brown and Frank Rich for consulting gigs, Felix Gillette wonders, "So what’s next?" He also notes, "the truly free-range journalist-consultant—one with a broad editorial mandate to roam here and there gnawing lustfully on some projects while trampling others willy-nilly—remains a rare and exotic beast."
Speaking of television, Doree Read More
“I’m interrogating a minor, and then I’ll be with you,” writer and amateur pugilist Jonathan Ames told the Transom at a benefit for the literary magazine Open City on Thursday, May 22. Young, pretty lady-intellectuals were wafting through several connecting rooms in N.Y.U.’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House in the Village, under the gaze of Read More
Storied East Village literary haunt KGB Bar is shopping a new paperback fiction anthology to publishers this week, called The Greatest Stories Ever Read, according to literary agent Peter Steinberg, who is representing the book to publishers. The anthology, billed as "a greatest hits collection" of writing that has been read at KGB over the Read More
Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting to painting while pretending not to steal glances at Mr. Mull, swirling a glass, off to the side. There should be a German word for when Read More
Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting to painting while pretending not to steal glances at Mr. Mull, swirling a glass, off to the side. There should be a German word for when Read More
To the Editor:
Jonathan Ames’ piece “My Very Open Diary: Ogling Short Skirts on Ashe’s Blue Courts” [Sept. 12] was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
I rarely read sports news, but the caption caught my eye.
However (there is always a “however,” have you noticed?), I would not go out drinking with a guy who admits being Read More
The Extra Man , by Jonathan Ames. Scribner, 333 pages, $23.
Imagine a version of The Great Gatsby in which Nick Carraway has this teensy problem, this little tendency to cross-dress. Imagine Gatsby, Nick’s guide and entree to the seductive world of new money and old heartbreak, transformed into an elderly eccentric who dyes his Read More
