Last night I had the pleasure of acting as the emcee of a panel held at The Writing Center of Hunter College featuring The Kings and Queens of Suspense, where I tossed questions to the best-selling authors Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block and one of my particular favorites, Alan Furst (above). Some …
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article in Slate about the changing nature of privacy. There’s less for you and me, and more for corporations and groups. “Once upon a time,” she writes, “you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for …
According to an article in The Telegraph, Tony Blair‘s memoir, A Journey, is under consideration for “the least coveted prize in literature”– The Bad Sex Prize, which is presented annually to the author who has done the worst job writing about sex. Previous winners include Sebastian Faulks and Philip Kerr. Blair has been catapulted into …
We went to see the film Secretariat yesterday. It was a fairly standard sports story, full of the usual sports story pleasures–a plucky lead character, colorful supporting characters, beautiful pictures of competition. Diane Lane and James Cromwell had some swell scenes involving business dealings. The big let down for me came when they showed Secretariat …
After a middling October in which key players struggled and the team gave away a first-place finish in the standings, I didn’t have a great feeling about the Yankees’ chances this October. Now, after a three-game sweep of a very good Twins team–one which was accomplished without much from Alex Rodriguez and only a very …
My daughter Cara hasn’t ridden in a horse show in five or six months, but today at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport CT, she won best in show. She won the jumping competition and finished first and sixth and the flat events for an overall first place finish. Way to go, Cara!
Writing on the op-ed page of The New York Times, William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, the very informative and often shocking account of the collapse of Bear Stearns, has written one of the sharpest, most succinct, most lucid articles on reforming the …
The once and perhaps future governor of California Jerry Brown is the latest public figure to become entangled in a Loose Lips imbroglio. As reported in The Los Angeles Times, candidate Brown or one of his associates can be heard speaking in a private conversation inadvertently captured by voicemail, calling his Republican opponent Meg Whitman …
In town to visit old buddy George Kalogerakis and the gang at The New York Times who will be working on our Civil War blog.
Killing time between screenings of Casino Jack and Gerrymandering at Magno Screening Room.