Residents of the Hamptons will be doing their part to raise money (and the average contribution figure) for Barack Obama’s Victory Fund at an August 17 fund-raiser with special guest Caroline Kennedy, according to an invite sent in by a reader. (Obama will not be in attendance.) The hosts of the event are Ross Bleckner Read More
Godly-voiced newsman Tom Brokaw has bought the duplex apartment that belonged to the godly Barbara Epstein for over half a century. The apartment, at 33 West 67th Street, sold for $3,267,650.
At the apartment’s dinner table, back in 1962, Ms. Epstein invented The New York Review of Books with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick and then-husband Read More
“We are a subscriber-based publication; we don’t worry about losing advertising,” Rea Hederman, the publisher of The New York Review of Books, said. “Sometimes I wish that weren’t the case … but it’s not something that we have to have in the back of our minds when deciding whether to do a story or not. Read More
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
“I think I’ve a terrible defect,” said Robert B. Silvers, editor of The New York Review of Books, “which is, I don’t have a very full sense of time. I don’t feel an enormous accretion of years or anything like that. I’m very involved in what we’re doing here—as involved as ever—and I don’t think Read More
Epstein en Provence
Gaudi’s towers and spirals faded from view as the Silversea cruise ship the Silver Shadow started its voyage Friday to Marseilles from Barcelona …. The interior of the ship provides such diversions as a daily putting contest and, of course, food, but it’s what’s outside the ship that is inspiring: the full Read More
Epstein en Provence
Gaudi’s towers and spirals faded from view as the Silversea cruise ship the Silver Shadow started its voyage Friday to Marseilles from Barcelona …. The interior of the ship provides such diversions as a daily putting contest and, of course, food, but it’s what’s outside the ship that is inspiring: the full Read More
It was a balmy Sunday night at the Magnolia Bakery, and it seemed as if every New Yorker not home snuggling with their spouse in front of The Sopranos was part of the crowd spilling onto Bleecker Street. There were half-nibbled iced cupcakes in their hands and rapturous expressions on their faces. Some were enjoying Read More
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future , by Jason Epstein. W.W. Norton, 188 pages, $21.95.
The Business of Books , by André Schiffrin. Verso, 131 pages, $23.
It is often said–usually by disgruntled authors–that book editors are just failed writers. Actually, there are plenty of crossover successes: Think of Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Read More
