Entries By Victoria Rowan
As Tom Wolfe pointed out in Bonfire of the Vanities, the 20th Century Masters of the Universe were doomed for extinction. So I am happy to report I now have sufficient corroborating evidence for my theory that the 21st Century is destined to be the golden age of the Masters of Reinvention. Yes, the era [...]
Who knew that Joan Baez wrote poetry? Or that Wynton Marsalis hates to fly and reads poetry aloud–loudly!–in the car to keep his brothers awake while driving cross-country? Or that Chip Kidd could sing?
Yes, my best beloved literary trivia junkies, I learned these and many other fun facts at The Academy of American Poets’ annual [...]
The Gotham version of The American Dream is that the dreamer wants to make her fortune BECAUSE she is also an “only-in-New-York” character. Manhattan owes much of its mystique to the talent it has incubated here, which would have been misunderstood anywhere else, think: Woody Allen, Kurt Anderson, Mario Batali, Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica [...]
