Top of the Stack
The Bustling Days and Rum-and-Coke Nights of Barney Rosset
Down but not out with the greatest publisher of the 20th Century.
The Front Page
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A previously unpublished look at Martin Scorsese as he promoted “Mean Streets” in the fall of 1973.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.
Shadow Boxing
Robert Weaver makes like Joseph Cornell and everybody wins.
This Gun for Hire
The cinematic brilliance of Julian Allen.
John Mellencamp, Daddy’s Boy
E Jean hangs with the all-American rocker in the thick of his Pink Houses prime.
Patricia Wells: An American Food Critic in Paris
Wells is a genuine phenomenon, an American and a woman who suddenly occupies a stellar position as a critic in a trade dominated by French men.