When I recently picked up The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 by Tina Brown I was prepared for a fabulous stroll down memory lane. Tina did not disappoint for the most part, but one shocking (to me, anyway) revelation literally made me drop my Kindle.
Of course, I anticipated some major name-dropping and gossip from the decadent, over-the-top 80s when both Tina and I were editors in New York City: she, the fabulously talented, visionary editor who turned around Vanity Fair, a dying up-market glossy; me, the managing editor of a supermarket tabloid, STAR magazine, shunned by the same celebrities who fell over themselves to be on Tina’s Vanity Fair covers. Continue reading “The Diaries Of A New York Editor Revive Great Memories”
Scott Eyman is a former book and art critic for the Palm Beach Post, and the author of 15 books. These include three written about, and with, Hollywood icon, Robert (R.J.) Wagner, husband of the late Natalie Wood whose drowning death 37 years ago is under new investigation as of last week. So of course when Eyman was scheduled as a speaker for the Palm Beach Writers Group this week, I signed up. 
You would think that A.J. Finn would know all the rules of writing genre fiction especially psychological thrillers. Just before his first novel hit the #1 slot on the New York Times bestseller list four weeks ago, he was an executive editor at William Morrow publishing company working on the novels of authors like Karin Slaughter and Val McDermid. Yet, in The Woman In the Window ( Rear Window, the movie, meets The Girl On The Train) Finn breaks a lot of big rules.