What Do Ian Spiegelman and Vladimir Nabokov Have in Common?

New York City gossip reporter turned novelist Ian Spiegelman is the latest victim of Vladimir Putin’s vicious crackdown on the rights of the Russian proletariat.

Ever since his novel Everyone’s Burning, which explores the drugged-out lives of disaffected kids in Bayside, was picked up by the Moscow publishing house AST in Read More

The Transom

Door, Shut?

Those fickle billionaires behind Door—that’s the nightclub on 23rd Street where you have to be either really rich or a model to get in—may have already decided to slam shut their notorious peephole for good.

“The landlords tried to hike the rent and they decided it wasn’t worth it,” said a source with Read More

Jared Paul Stern Is Slouching Back With Book, Lawsuit

“You know the average Post reader is a complete cretin,” Jared Paul Stern said.

Mr. Stern, the fallen gossip columnist, has sold a nonfiction book to Touchstone Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster.

“But we’re not writing it for them,” Mr. Stern said, of that majority of his former readers in the New York Read More

Serious Inside Baseball: Imaginary Party Report #5260

The Transom refused to attend Toby Young’s book party last night, even though it was clearly the must-attend party of 2002. Did one really have to attend to report it?

Rachel Sklar was in an effusive mood, her rockin’ bod swaying slightly with the off-genre Soho House soundtrack. She warmly greeted the overly well-dressed reporter Read More