Viva Versace
Steven Gaines is the author of twelve books, including a New York Times bestselling social and cultural portrait of the Hamptons, Philistines at the Hedgerow. He is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, and his journalism has appeared in The New York Times, New York Observer, and Vanity Fair.
In an excerpt from Fool's Paradise, Steven Gaines considers the enduring influence of Gianni Versace on South Beach.
Bright Nights, Shady City
Daphne Merkin was a staff writer for The New Yorker and is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Elle. She is the author of a novel, Enchantment, and a collection of essays, Dreaming of Hitler.
Steve Gaines' Fool's Paradise delivers a full diet of South Beach lore and other Miami vices.
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.
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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.
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