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“Centenarian” by Calvin Tomkins
Calvin Tomkins was a writer born in 1925, the same year as The New Yorker. For many years, he was a staff writer, contributing nearly 400 articles to the magazine, including insightful profile features on artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Robert Rauschenberg. He also wrote several books, including a biography of Marcel Duchamp, which…
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“Perfect Life” by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
“Perfect Life” is one of those books that became really popular in recent years – rich people behaving badly. For an unexplained reason, I’m drawn to the subject, and the atmosphere where a country club type community, very polished on its surface, turns out to be a pond with a piranha hunting the pretty gold…
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“The Thoroughbreds” by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
“The Thoroughbreds” is the sequel to Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham’s “The Academy.” Each novel follows students and faculty over the course of one year at Tiffin Academy, a New England boarding school. Though it can stand alone, I recommend reading “The Academy” first, as many storylines begun there are resolved in the…
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