Many books and films have partisans who insist their works are loved and admired by the American people, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the real thing...
Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking ...
The hardest part is to keep going, and every writer knows it. The best have left their words of wisdom to help the rest of us plod along. We loved the...
As fashion week ends and a new cycle of styles begin, how does one mange her wardrobe with the latest and greatest? Living in large city with limited ...
For all the complaining I've done about my Catholic school education, I'm thankful for at least one of their policies -- the required summer reading list.
My friend, Lester Persky, who had produced Oscar-nominated Shampoo as well as Hair, Equus, Yanks, had invited me to the 48th Annual Academy Awards...
The house that Truman Capote lived in while writing "Breakfast At Tiffanys" and "A House on the Heights" went on the market last year for $18 million....
These days,it's almost impossible to find a young architect who can draw freehand. To others, though, a computer and a pencil are simply two different ways of developing an idea. There are those who can draw, and those who prefer a computer.
Last week, Tina Fey was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and over the weekend PBS aired the made-for-TV ceremony. Whi...
I feel as if it's my personal mission to make over every dowdy author I see. I haven't quite learned how to do this tactfully, despite the strong temptation.
We all know that rare thing called good character is no prerequisite for a great actress, but Patricia Neal had this quality, in spades. We will not see her like again.
Wasson's small-sized but big-hearted and original book tells how they captured the magic of the new woman in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Reading Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. is a magical ride through Hollywood deal-making, star-making, and movie-making.
It's important for me to keep things in perspective when writing about Tammy Grimes, who's just finishing up a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Room. After all, she's 76 now. And yet, and yet: She's still enchanting.
Los Angeles--based writer Sam Wasson's new book, 5th Ave, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, which is out...
The lesson on this Columbine anniversary that hits April 20 may not come from the shootings themselves. But rather, how the media has covered the shootings since the ten-year anniversary last year.
Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...
Donald Windham, a novelist and memoirist who left vivid pictures of literary life in New York, both fictional and factual, when he was an intimate of ...
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - The Brooklyn town house where Truman Capote wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and other notable works is on sale for $18 mi...
What if we all returned to a magical time in our childhoods? Would we discover our true selves? As the subway rumbled past my old neighborhood, I traveled back to when I first performed at the infamous disco club Studio 54--at age eight.
As a sixteen-year-old, I felt that Holden Caulfield's suspicions and black humor and irreverence would inevitably position me as the sort of adult artist I someday hoped to become.
I followed Bobby out through the kitchen. I heard the scream and it told me everything I needed to know. I knew this was it. We had walked out of happiness into hell.
Here are my twelve: Each book celebrates the birth month of an author, a holiday or some other event connected to that month.
Fifty years ago, on Nov. 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered at their rural farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas, a crime whic...
In this special edition of my recurring column that celebrates objects, rituals, curiosities, and personae from eras past -- I've compiled a shortlist of holiday season cheer from eras past.
