Author name: Joyce Bright

[ad_1] The retroactive FOMO flows fast and thick through “When the Going Was Good,” former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir about the final golden age of magazine publishing. The glamour. The power. The boldface names. The expense accounts. “Extreme expense-account creativity was looked upon with the same sort of reverence as writing a particularly

[ad_1] One winter’s night, at a charity gala in a Chicago gallery, a con is on. Liz Dawson, masquerading as art consultant Elizabeth Hastings, finds the mark she has set her sights on, Mrs. Reed. After her bogus sob story elicits the sympathy of the wealthy collector and philanthropist, Liz then piques her interest with

[ad_1] How well do any of us know our adult siblings? In “A Better Ending,” James Whitfield Thomson looks back on the events of summer 1974, when his younger sister, Eileen, died at the age of 27 from a gunshot wound to the chest. His sister’s death was quickly ruled a suicide, although it bore