With the final class of my course in Magazine Writing at Marymount Manhattan College last night, I concluded my debut effort as a teacher. It was an enjoyable experience–certainly enjoyable enough that I’ll do it again next year. Thanks to the students who showed up and participated most enthusiastically for the last two months, including …
As Clive Owen put it in the brilliant last line of Children of Men, “What a day!” It started (late) with a very fine lunch at Bar American (the old Judson Grill at Seventh and 52nd) with my old and dear friend from Spy days, John Connolly, now a contributor to Vanity Fair, and his …
My eagle-eyed friend John Connolly spotted this complimentary comment about Spy in, of all places, The Tube City Almanac of McKeesport, Pennsylvania: With My Little Eye: One of my purchases during the recent Book Country outing was a history of the late, lamented Spy magazine called Spy: The Funny Years. I started to page through …
Investigative reporter John Connolly and his friend Dorothy Caravello, radio hostLisa Birnbach, and me Playboy‘s Conor Hogan and Maria Malanowski My ex-Spy mate George Kalogerakis, now of the Times Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, with me and Playboy editor Chip Rowe Writer Daniel Radosh, and Playboy editors Scott Alexander and Steve …