Being a writer is drab and unglamorous—lots of nights spent watching HBO comedies and trying to forget deadlines, not nearly enough spent out on the town—but once you’ve made it, you’ve really made it. The 1 percent of the writing world celebrate themselves at the Pen World Voices Festival opening night at the Top of Read More
Who knew the Top Chef host was such a fan of Vanity Fair‘s late columnist? Padma Lakshmi dropped in on a VF-hosted tribute to Christopher Hitchens on Friday at the Cooper Union–as did her former husband, author Salman Rushdie. Though the pair were not photographed together, perhaps out of the loss of Hitchens may come a rekindling of the Rushdie-Lakshmi romance? Read More
Where’s Salman Rushdie been lately? Ever since that high-society parvenu Devorah Rose sought him out as the catalyst of her latest reinvention and spilled all the details to the tabloid press, he’s been quieter than anytime since the clerics called for his head! Tonight, the verses he’ll be sharing are angelic, not satanic, as he’s cohosting a Read More
