"Writers receive so many scam emails. I knew I was shortlisted and that it probably wasn’t a scam. And I just wrote a book ...

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If you’re not on Andrew Saffir’s Cinema Society guest list, you’re missing out on movie stars, private advance screenings of the buzziest films, after-parties behind tall hedges and all the free ...

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JANET MERCEL meets playwright and screenwriter Lila Raicek to plumb the depths of writing, risk, desire, and her new novel The Plunge. When I meet Lila Raicek for lunch at The Frick, neither of us is ...

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NEST New York‘s newest candle in their Wellness Collection is a de-stressing blend of cucumber and white sage with hints of lavender. And with a strike of a match, this limited-edition 3-wick candle ...

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Jean Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting Untitled (ELMAR) sold for $46.5 million last May at Phillips auction house. The artist, who died at age 27 in 1988, has become one of the most collectible painters ...

Laurence Milstein and Stacey Bendet hosted a cocktail party for the Friends of the CFDA Hosts Laurence Milstein, in Thom Browne, and designer Stacey Bendet The CFDA’s Steven Kolb, Georgina Chapman and ...

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