I had the pleasure to be interviewed by reporter Andrew Whitman, the anchor and senior political correspondent for RNN FiOS1. We didn’t talk politics, just the legacy of the Algonquin Round Table. It was perfect to sit at the Round Table and […]
Everyone is jumping up and down to celebrate (well, the nerds I follow), about The New Yorker turning 90 today. In every story Jane Grant gets left out. In my book and on my walking tour I say what her husband, Harold […]
This is a book trailer for my new one, The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide. And since I made it about Jane Grant, Harold Ross, and Alexander Woollcott, I thought I’d post this recipe. It’s from my earlier work, […]
This is DeWolf Hopper, dead actor, who made Casey at the Bat famous. I had a fantastic private tour of The Lambs, America’s 1st professional theater club, founded in 1874. The art, paintings, and nicknacks of old New York are blowing my […]
I was very happy to see Sam Roberts include my new book in his Bookshelf column in the Sunday New York Times. The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide shares space with The Ramones and Weegee, both are favorites of […]
I kicked in a blog post for my friends at Cladrite Radio about, guess what? Radio. The article is Radio Pioneers of the Algonquin Round Table (tied into my new book this month, The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide) […]
Letter from Harold Ross of The New Yorker to Frank Sullivan, both were Vicious Circle members. What I find ironic is now The New Yorker will use this language regularly. He also mentions John O’Hara. This is some of the research from […]
Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday held on the third Monday of January. It celebrates today, Monday, Jan 19, 2015. Dorothy Parker left her estate to Dr. King, a man she never met. She spoke up for social justice her […]
Now that my book is out, I am looking at what went right and what went wrong with The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide. Today I was in a file of letters, and I came across one that I […]
I’m happy my third blog post for the Huffington Post was published today. You can read my others here. With my book, The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, published this week, I wanted to write a post for a wide […]
