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Unexpected NY real estate cameo in Tina Brown's "The Vanity Fair Diaries," the irresistibly spicy memoir from her time at the center of Manhattan society. (Burden was head of City Planning under Bloomberg, and MZ's a legend) https://t.co/EhSNS34cnZ

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@lfschiavo Roald Dahl's "The Witches" Murakami's "What I talk about when I talk avout running"

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There is a great line in Suketu Mehta's "Maximum City" that goes something like: You only know you truly belong to a place when you start keeping others out. https://t.co/TzERiPo3ci

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@antonyslumbers The more I see this stuff, the more I recommend reading Jaron Lanier's "You are not a Gadget." Amazing (and prescient) job of fleshing out the dangers of packaged wisdom/interests like this.

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"The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher affirm that some years ago, late one night in the bar of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, this happened:" 🪄

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@rubenharris "Open" is hands down the best autobio I've read- marvelous. I also love Atul Gawande's "Complications" Biographies much richer selection. Caro's "The Power Broker," is as great as they say. I'm reading Raboy's "Marconi" now, about the father of radio (and hardcore fascist)

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@PinkPoloShorts Skyscraper Dreams by Tom Shachtman High Rise by Jerry Adler And our upcoming one, "The New Kings of New York" The subhed is: "Renegades, Moguls, Gamblers and the Remaking of the World's Most Famous Skyline" Watch this space :)

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@drgurner Andre Agassi is the most glaring exception to the "enjoy" part. Read his extraordinary memoir, "Open," if you haven't.

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@patrick_oshag Will pair well w When we Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. Here's the first page https://t.co/gndDmPNnfR

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"The playwright David Mamet and the theatre director Gregory Mosher affirm that some years ago, late one night in the bar of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, this happened:" 🪄