Selected articles
Prairie Fire
The suicide of a teenage prodigy in rural Nebraska. National Magazine Award finalist for feature writing.
[The New Yorker]
Who Killed Anna Mae?
The unsolved murder of a Native American political activist.
[New York Times Magazine]
Unseparated Since Birth
The Bryan Brothers, identical twins and the greatest doubles team in tennis history.
[New York Times Magazine]
Is Anybody Buying Art These Days?
The Mugrabis, a family of art speculators.
[New York Times Magazine]
The Battle of Lyford Cay
A pair of billionaire next-door-neighbors in the Bahamas who set out to destroy one another.
[Vanity Fair]
Bad Blood the Color of Rubies
A family of fantastically wealthy gemstone dealers in India who share a mansion and can't stand one another.
[New York Magazine]
Goga Ashkenazi: The First Female Oligarch of Fashion
A Kazakhstani oligarch buys a famous fashion house in Milan and makes herself the chief dressmaker.
[New York Magazine]
The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian
An intimate glimpse at how Larry Gagosian, the biggest art dealer in the world, operates, told through the history of three Warhol paintings.
[New York Magazine]
The Murder of an African Miner — And His Son’s Quest For Revenge
About the political assassination of a geologist in Kenya who'd discovered a new gemstone and revolutionized the jewelry business.
[Men’s Journal]
The Real Ex-Husband of Beverly Hills
The composer David Foster, paterfamilias to an impressive number of reality-TV stars.
[Vanity Fair]
Can U.S. Men’s Tennis Rise Again?
Why Noah Rubin's friends think Andy Roddick was a male model.
[New York Times Magazine]
The Fall of Animal House
For Dartmouth's infamous fraternity, the choice is change or die.
[Rolling Stone]
What Money Can’t Buy
Jocelyne Wildenstein and her husband, Alec, scion of the world’s richest art family, believed that beauty was for sale.
[New York Magazine]
There's Something About Geno
A legend among his character-actor friends at Marylou's and Elaine's for his impeccable style and his long romance with the wiseguy life, Geno Durante hasn't been seen much in the movies, but he's played one role to perfection: himself.
[New York Magazine]
Marks Nabs Johns
How gallerist Matthew Marks bagged the flag man and became the new Leo Castelli.
[New York Magazine]
Jimmy Nederlander's Endless Run
The patriarch of theater's last dynasty does business just the way he did when the city's hottest nightspots were Sardi's and the Stork.
[New York Magazine]
Goy Vay
As spiritual seekers shop for faith, feel-good Judaism is becoming a big seller--even to the goyim.
[New York Magazine]
The OB-GYN Who Loves Women
Dr. Niels Lauersen is so charismatic that patients flocked to his insurance-fraud trial, but investigators are asking: just how good a doctor is he?
[New York Magazine]
The Real Spree
The pride and intensity that made knicks star Latrell Sprewell great also caused him to lose control and attack his coach. Can he change? Should he?
[New York Magazine]
How to Make a Best Seller
The inside story of one publishing house's attempt to turn a literary novelist into a marketplace superstar.
[New York Magazine]
Inn Fighting
Ian Schrager vs. Brian McNally.
[New York Magazine]
Zen Master Rama's Long Goodbye
Beset by scandals, New Age cult leader Frederick Lenz dressed in Versace, took a fistful of valium, and walked off the end of his dock with his favorite of the many followers he'd slept with. She survived. This is their story.
[New York Magazine]
"Dad Always Liked You Best!"
Would-be media mogus--Tony and Bobby Guccione, respectively, the favored and estranged scion of the Penthouse empire--put the "fun" in "dysfunctional."
[GQ]
Rocco II
Superchef Rocco DiSpirito's Second Act
[GQ]
How to Make Roles? Make Movies
Stanley Tucci, a movie actor tired of being typecast as an Italian heavy, makes his own film, Big Night.
[The New York Times Magazine]
