Top of the Stack
Ex Drops In
Knocking ’em back with the ultimate writer’s writer.
The Front Page
… The Joy of Boredom …
It takes time, practice, patience and money to learn the difference between the truly boring and the spuriously dreary.
The Post-Celluloid Tristesse of Raquel Welch
Being a sex symbol isn’t all it’s cracked-up to be.
Controlling Force
There was no pop in his fastball, no drop in his curve, but Greg Maddux used his smarts to become the best pitcher in Major League Baseball.
The Bustling Days and Rum-and-Coke Nights of Barney Rosset
Down but not out with the greatest publisher of the 20th Century.
Joe Biden in the Crunch
Forever Presidential, Joe Biden, Delaware Democrat, Goes For Broke Against Robert Bork.
The Man Behind the Curtain
Jay Lovinger, the Yoda of magazine writing, and the invisible art of editing.
Smart Tartt
In 1992 Donna Tartt’s first novel created a sensation in the literary world. Tartt was a throwback, a T.S. Eliot freak with a southern-gothic past, as well as a breakaway talent.
Looking for The Real Thing
A previously unpublished look at Martin Scorsese as he promoted “Mean Streets” in the fall of 1973.
Jacqueline Susann: The Writing Machine
What becomes a legend most? The unsinkable Jacqueline Susann.
I Cover the Waterfront
Three scenes from Max Miller’s brilliant book that Joyce Wadler used to give all her young reporters.
The Insanity Bit
The landmark New Journalism essay about Krim’s Crack-Up.
Justice in Summer
A reporter’s account of the Emmett Till trial—An American Tragedy.