The following is an interview with Lisa Birnbach, author of the 1980 best seller The Official Preppy Handbook and its sequel, True Prep, due out in September. Birnbach discusses both books and their relation to an ever-changing American landscape.
CC: How did the new book come...
Posted April 1, 2010 | 16:20:10 (EST)
It's hard to imagine a magazine like The Rake launching in the US, even without a recession. Founded in Singapore in 2008 and written in English by a largely British stable of contributors, The Rake is guided by a lofty sense of taste -- part Savile Row and part Neopolitan...
Posted March 18, 2010 | 19:17:00 (EST)
During the heyday of The Ivy League Look, a number of guys from preppy backgrounds wound up working in the field of jazz. Bobby Troup was one of them.
Raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Troup prepped at The Hill School, then studied economics at the Wharton School at the University of...
Posted March 12, 2010 | 13:19:13 (EST)
Last year, between Los Angeles and New York, I spent six months in my old environs of the Bay Area, including five weeks staying with a former flame (now married to a Hungarian who lost his baronetcy in the revolution), in Oakland on Lake Merritt.
Out for a stroll one...
Posted April 29, 2010 | 19:13:24 (EST)