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The Stacks Chat: Robert Benton
“Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It’s not about how effective you are it’s about how you are effective. George Clooney has taste, Cary Grant had style.”
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Magnificent Obsession
Dispatches from the set of ‘Titanic’
The Lady Eve
The One and Only.
The Stacks Chat: Chip Brown
Alex Belth Esquire Classic, 2016 Chip Brown has long been one of the finest magazine writers we have. An exacting reporter and a deft stylist, Brown began under the tutelage of David Maraniss and Bob Woodward at The Washington Post and flourished as feature writer for...
Death in Venice
On the Boardwalk with Deadwood’s Ian McShane: “Youth can always be overcome by wisdom and treachery.”
A Forgotten Pioneer of The New Journalism
Before Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe, there was Thomas B. Morgan.
The Stacks Chat: John Edgar Wideman
“When you start out on a book, you’re hoping that when you finish you’ll be different. How different? What different? If you knew that you wouldn’t need to write the book.”
Brooke on the Brink
Almost 30 years ago, Brooke Shields did not consider herself a serious actress. But she could not escape her ambivalent feelings about the mother who helped make her a star.
The Young and the Homeless
The sad thing is, once they hit bottom, not even their youth can buoy them up.
The Long, Slow Fall of a Gridiron God
Once upon a time, Art Schlichter was the number one quarterback in the nation. Then he discovered gambling. He would never recover.
Getting it Straight
In the late 1980s, as more of New York City’s women and children succumbed to the plague of AIDS, inescapable truths emerged about ethics, sex, poverty, and the future.
Attitude Dancing
Helena’s dancing so overwhelmed me with awe and happiness that when I heard that she was at a place on Hollywood Boulevard called the Greek Village, I dragged every date there and made him pay clip-joint prices so I could see the girl move.
The Making of a Golden Boy
Why Oscar De La Hoya was the Champ everyone loved to hate.