By Foster Kamer 6/13/12 4:22pm

IMPERIAL BEDROOMS

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Bret Easton Ellis' New York Apartment - Living Room

Bret Easton Ellis Wants You to Rent Out His East Village Loft

Ever since Bret Easton Ellis decamped to Los Angeles, New York City’s lone prominent literary brat-packer, Jay McInerney, has ruled with an iron fist from atop his Hearst-cohabited Village penthouse over…young Bard graduates who aspire to be Dan Humphrey. But the author, Best New American Film Critic, and budding entertainment revolutionary still has a well-preserved plot of East Village apartment space, filled with the rarefied air that only the man who yielded American Psycho could have occupied. And now, you—yes, you—can live in it, if you so choose. Read More

By Foster Kamer 8/02/11 8:51pm

GOLD!

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Fool’s Gold: The Mania for the Shiny Stuff Keeps Spreading

IN 2008, I was on the losing end of a gold trade—swindled, really.

By my dad.

I had just been laid off after the literary agent I worked for was poached, but was lucky enough to find a job and not have to file for unemployment only days later. In the interim between paychecks, however, I’d be broke.

“Well, you’ve got those coins lying around,” he suggested. Read More