By Darby Saxbe 11/11/02 12:00am

Everything Must Go! A Life to the Highest Bidder

All My Life for Sale , by John D. Freyer. Bloomsbury, 224 pages, $19.95.

Two years ago, John Freyer auctioned off his birthday. More specifically, he let eBay’s highest bidder, a stranger named Brian, pay $1.25 to assume his identity at a Manhattan bar where a group of Mr. Freyer’s friends had gathered to fête Read More

By Simon Doonan 3/26/01 12:00am

Try Purging the Boom Years and Start the New Age Clean

Bowels away!

Consumer confidence might be constipated, but New Yorkers aren’t: They’re voiding and releasing with an unprecedented bravura. Shrieks of delight are issuing from every orifice of this great city of ours, as the formerly fiercely acquisitive, often tight-assed inhabitants are now discovering the joys of evacuating both body and home. Do try it. Read More