Vanity Fair cover story on Grace Kelly

“Grace Kelly’s Forever Look” by Laura Jacobs

The rare beauty and stunning self-possession that propelled Grace Kelly into the Hollywood pantheon, onto the Best-Dressed List, and ultimately to Monaco’s royal palace were more than captivating – they were completely genuine. As London’s Victoria and Albert Museum unveils an exhibition devoted to Kelly’s style, which still inspires fashion from Hermes to Tommy Hilfiger to Mad Men’s costumer Janie Bryant, the author looks at the intertwined qualities of an icon: white-gloved ingenue, elegant goddess, passionate – and frankly sexual – romantic.

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Village Voice cover story – “How Treme Can Get It Right”

“How Treme Can Get It Right” by Larry Blumenfeld

David Simon’s new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans’ surreal, heart-breaking fact

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*Treme co-writer and executive producer David Mills died yesterday of a brain aneurism at the age of 48

**Treme premieres April 11 on HBO

NYT Magazine Preview – “Can Animals be Gay?”

“Can Animals be Gay?” by Jon Mooalem

Various forms of same-sex sexual activity have been recorded in more than 450 different species of animals by now, from flamingos to bison to beetles to guppies to warthogs.

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Economist cover story – “Hope At Last”

“Hope At Last”

The world’s biggest economy has begun a much-needed transition. Barack Obama could do more to help.

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Vanity Fair profile of Gen. David Petraeus

“The Professor of War” by Mark Bowden

At 57, General David Petraeus has revolutionized the way America fights its wars, starting with the surge in Iraq and continuing into his current command, with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Yemen. Charting Petraeus’s relentless challenge to the institution he reveres – the U.S. Army – and to himself, the author hears about the unceasing drive, groundbreaking methods, and darkest moments of a four-star rebel.

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Bonus web exclusive from Vanity Fair, “David Petraeus’s Winning Streak”: [Link]

Read a 33-page excerpt from Maria (don’t call her the “Money Honey”) Bartiromo’s new book

“The 10 Laws of Enduring Success” by Maria Bartiromo (in stores March 30th)

Bartiromo—who last year re-upped for another five years as CNBC’s prima diva, while continuing to host her nationally syndicated television programWall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo—is sharing her philosophy of life and work in The 10 Laws of Enduring Success. It’s a breezy primer based not only on her own experiences but on the up-close-and-personal insights of “Jack” (Welch), “Warren” (Buffett), “Bill” (Gates), “Condi” (Rice), and other high-flying friends of Maria. [from the Daily Beast]

Read a 33-page excerpt here: [Link]

NYT profile of Jets’ owner (and scooter-commuter) Woody Johnson

“Jets’ Woody Johnson Leaps Into the Limelight” by Greg Bishop

Johnson is taking decisive steps to change the Jets’ identity, and that starts with the owner, out front, signaling this new direction. Finding the right fit, the right business, the right team, took 62 years for Johnson, who most mornings commutes by custom foot scooter to his offices in Rockefeller Center. It makes for an odd image: the billionaire Fred Flintstone, pedaling through Manhattan in designer suits.

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Vanity Fair profile of i-banking legend Bruce Wasserstein

“Bruce Wasserstein’s Last Surprise” by William Cohan

The mystery shrouding Bruce Wasserstein’s death, last October, at 61, fit the billionaire investment banker’s M.O. Always secretive, he withdrew further as his health apparently failed and his personal relationships turned tumultuous. With stories about Wasserstein’s brilliant rise and the three different Wall Street firms he inspired, including his contentious final act as head of Lazard, the author profiles a master negotiator who made his own rules.

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New Fiction in the New Yorker – “Gavin Highly” by Janet Frame

“Gavin Highly” by Janet Frame

A short story about a hermit who tries to sell his book collection.

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Janet Frame is a novelist/essayist/poet from New Zealand who passed away in 2004.  She received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for The Carpathians, the last novel published during her lifetime. Her 1963 novel Towards Another Summer was just released in the US.

New York Magazine cover story – another Lady Gaga profile

“Growing Up Gaga” by Vanessa Grigoriadis

The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

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