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George Plimpton

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Tony Hendra, Satirist Behind New York Times Spoof Site, Molested His Daughter, New York Times Reported

    Tony Hendra​A website called The Final Edition launched today as a mock version of the New York Times website with the giant headline, "The New York Times, World's Newspaper of Record, Closes Its Doors Forever." (The lead photo shows the Times building in flames.) In layout, the homepage looks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    R.I.P. Elaine Kaufman, Owner of the Elaine's

    Lorenzo Ciniglio​Elaine Kaufman, the owner of the eponymous Upper East Side restaurant that for decades has served as a second home to legions of writers, died earlier this afternoon. The Post reports that Kaufman, who was 81, died from complications of emphysema. A lifelong New Yorker, Kauf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Capital New York: Now Officially, Totally, Completely Alive

    ​We've come a long way from Talk Magazine, back when a bunch of writers doing something new meant a Robert Isbell-planned party on Liberty Island and George Plimpton drunkenly screaming at Salman Rushdie while he was busy trying to close on Padma. Yet, now, in an era when "editorial launch" me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Why Norman Mailer Sucked as a Filmmaker

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 24, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 2 Films by Andrew Sarris Norman Mailer's "BEYOND THE LAW" (at the Art) represents an infinite improvement over "Wild 90," Mailer's maiden effort in cinematographic expression. "Beyond the Law" is at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    George Plimpton, William Styron Get Down for McCarthy

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 22, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 45 A Concurrence of Poets, And One Who Stayed Home by Joe Flaherty Possibly realizing their influence on the Great Society and the mathematicians in Chicago, a group of writers and artists staged what th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Pete Hamill's Eyewitness Account of Robert Kennedy's Assassination

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 13, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 35 Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill LOS ANGELES -- It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Andy Warhol's Book Party: Put-On, Pop-Out, Blow-Up

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 21, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 10 Andy Warhol's Book Party: Put-On, Pop-Out, Blow-Up by Sally Kempton and Ross Wetzsteon "Do you think pop art is..." "No." "What?" "No." "Do you think pop art is..." "No...No, I don't." Andy Warhol h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Norman Mailer Throws a Block Party, Martha Raye Tries to Spoil It

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 4, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 29 Mailer's Street Scene: Renewal on Sunday By Stephanie Harrington When Norman Mailer gives a party in the Village, even the elements hang in for the old burgomaster. Last Sunday the air was soft and invitin ... More >>

  • Books

    January 26, 2010

    Dancing Barefoot: Patti Smith's Just Kids

    A rock icon looks back at her youth

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Clip Job: Barbara Long Takes Apart The Archer-Griffith Bout Of 1966

    Barbara Long, the Voice's no-nonsense boxing critic​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 21, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 40 On One Hand in a Two-Handed Society By Barbara Long Three one-handed wonders showed up at Madison Square Garden last week. Joey Archer was there to tak ... More >>

  • Books

    March 25, 2009

    Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

    New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Exclusive First Look/Media Criticism A-Go-Go: Peaches Geldof's Disappear Here

    New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

  • Books

    September 18, 2007

    Endgame

    Philip Roth evokes Samuel Beckett in a farewell to alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman

  • Theater

    November 14, 2006

    The Daily Show

    Neither rain nor sleet nor writer's block kept Suzan-Lori Parks from her play a day

  • Film

    October 3, 2006

    Repeat Offender

    Slimmer in every sense, second Capote movie fails to improve on predecessor

  • Books

    August 1, 2006

    Roughing It

    Road worrier Sullivan hits the highway with his family, while McPhee keeps on trucking

  • Columns

    April 13, 2004

    Horoscope

    Road worrier Sullivan hits the highway with his family, while McPhee keeps on trucking

  • News

    March 16, 2004

    Positively Mercer Street

    Writing about playing poker with a writer famous for winning at poker? I'm in!

  • News

    October 21, 2003

    Is George Plimpton Irreplaceable?

    Writing about playing poker with a writer famous for winning at poker? I'm in!

  • News

    October 21, 2003

    Paris Review Rebounds

    The Surprising Legacy of George Plimpton

  • NYC Life

    March 25, 2003

    Listings

    The Surprising Legacy of George Plimpton

  • Books

    October 22, 2002

    Hobo Ken

    The Surprising Legacy of George Plimpton

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Jock Lit

    Need Relief? Summon the Pen.

  • Books

    March 20, 2001

    Start Making Sense

    A Zine Team Declares War on New York’s Literary Establishment

  • News

    February 13, 2001

    Imprints of the City

    NYC Literary Mags Endure—And Prevail

  • Theater

    August 8, 2000

    Lewis Lapham and White Whale Sighted on Bleecker Street

    Will Pomerantz’s Culture Club

  • Books

    May 16, 2000

    Job Performance

    Will Pomerantz’s Culture Club

  • News

    May 2, 2000

    The Silence of the Iambs

    Forged Poem Becomes Hot Literary Property

  • Art

    March 14, 2000

    Screen Saver

    Forged Poem Becomes Hot Literary Property

  • News

    December 28, 1999

    Y2Rudy

    What's the Real Agenda Behind the City's Official Millennium Committee?

  • Books

    October 26, 1999

    Lust for Lit

    What's the Real Agenda Behind the City's Official Millennium Committee?

  • Columns

    August 10, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Tina Brown looked stunning in a green, flowing ensemble. (Oh, that was Lady Liberty.)

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Wishful Reporting

    Tina Brown looked stunning in a green, flowing ensemble. (Oh, that was Lady Liberty.)

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    Jock Rock's Tot Schlock

    Tina Brown looked stunning in a green, flowing ensemble. (Oh, that was Lady Liberty.)

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