It's All About You!
Dana Vachon is a writer living in Manhattan.
You're still reading Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City 25 years later, says Dana Vachon, because you're just as self-absorbed as the culture it predicted.
Madoff's Sex/Money Paradox
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Sheryl Weinstein, the Ponzi victim who slept with Bernie-and just wrote a tell-all about it-might just be an Emma Bovary for the 21st century.
Sex With Madoff
Burt Ross, former mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and former administrator of the New Jersey Energy Office, is a lawyer and real-estate investor. A book The Bribe was written about his exploits with the Mafia.
On the day Madoff mistress Sheryl Weinstein's tell-all is released, Madoff victim Burt Ross confesses to a non-affair with Ruthie-and spares a thought for poor Mr. Weinstein, who joins the publicly humiliated spouses club.
Sources: Madoff Indictments Imminent
Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.
Two people close to the Bernie Madoff investigation tell Lucinda Franks prosecutors will issue more indictments after Labor Day, and new evidence is pointing toward family members.
Madoff's Other Girlfriends
Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.
Sheryl Weinstein wasn't the only woman the Ponzi monster was fooling around with, writes Lucinda Franks-he had more than one extra-marital affair, as well as encounters with "masseuses."
What Ruth Told Bernie
Jane Stanton Hitchcock is a playwright and a novelist. Her new novel about Washington society, Mortal Friends was published in July.
Novelist and playwright Jane Hitchcock channels Ruth Madoff's frustration in a fictionalized jailhouse spat with her philandering and swindling husband.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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