689 Words. 3 Minute Read.

I managed to get through my teen years without reading The Great Gatsby. Shocker—I know. Every red-blooded American is expected to have read this classic somewhere between Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, but, alas, I never took part in this literary rite of passage.

1,429 Words. 6 Minute Read. Part 2 of 2.

This is a story about a dinner in SoHo, NYC, in the spring of 1972, with Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair, writer Fran Lebowitz, film producer Robert Evans, founding member of the Grateful Dead Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and writer Hunter S. Thompson. The story is fictional but historically accurate.

1,452 Words. 6 Minute Read. Part 1 of 2.

This is a story about a dinner in SoHo, NYC, in the spring of 1972, with Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair, writer Fran Lebowitz, film producer Robert Evans, founding member of the Grateful Dead Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and writer Hunter S. Thompson. The story is fictional but historically accurate.

413 Words. 2 Minute Read.

Had anyone told me I’d read over 3,000 pages on Lyndon Johnson, I’d have said they were nuts—but I can’t stop. Caro reminds me of David McCullough in that he takes on massive projects but somehow keeps you engaged to the point of fanaticism.