Tad Friend

Oct 20, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tad Friend

If Glenn Horowitz comes calling, should you be flattered or alarmed? It means that you have an exceptional literary reputation. It also means that your time on earth is nearly up. Horowitz, a rare-book dealer of matchless temerity and flair, has sold the papers and possessions of more Nobel laureates than anyone else; he describes himself, with derisive pride, as “the Grim Reaper with a sack of shekels on his back.” He sold the archives of Gabriel García Márquez, J. M.

Oct 20, 2024 | flipboard.com | Tad Friend

4 days agoThe award-winning author of Trust and In the Distance takes our literary survey. Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation …

Oct 12, 2024 | vogue.com | Tad Friend

“The Armani Edge,” by Tad Friend, was originally published in the March 1992 issue of Vogue. Photographed by Arthur Elgort. Fashion Editor: André Leon Talley. Hair, Christiaan; makeup, Sonia Kashuk for Aveda. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. Fifty of the world’s most beautiful models waited for Giorgio Armani.

Aug 11, 2024 | newyorker.com | Tad Friend

One Saturday evening in late June, the master of ceremonies at the Ice House, a comedy club in Pasadena, California, told the audience that they were in for a special treat: Dr. Richard Wiseman, a British scientist who was on a quest to determine the world’s funniest joke, was going to come out and enlist the audience’s help. The m.c., Debi Gutierrez, would tell jokes that particularly appealed to Americans who had visited Wiseman’s humor Web site, and he would tell jokes favored by the British.

May 7, 2024 | sexandthecyborg.com | Tom Simonite |Ferris Jabr |Tad Friend |Christopher Trout

Someone, somewhere, at some point discovered that the girl bosses of Sex and The City had reached an unfathomable milestone: they were the same age as The Golden Girls. That someone then shared that gem with the internet and it proliferated. Become a free or paid subscriber and support independent journalism.