A best-selling resource for men's style and clothing, The Indispensable Guide to Classic Men's Clothing takes the mystery out of dressing well. This volume answers hundreds of questions about classic articles in a man's wardrobe, from ascots to wingtips. It describes, in practical language and through dozens of illustrations, the rules of attire that every man should know for occasions ranging from Casual Fridays to Black Tie. Leading experts on men's clothing-from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart, to Britain's famed Turnbull & Asser and France's venerable shoemaker J.M. Weston- have contributed their knowledge to this concise yet exahaustive volume, which explains how to put together a wardrobe of timeless, impeccable style. Plus, the finest custom suitmakers, shirtmakers and shoemakers describe the fine points of their craft and provide tips on how to recognize quality clothing. It has been featured in GQ magazine and Wedding Bells magazine.
Josh Karlen, a former journalist, grew up on the Lower East Side and in the Village. He lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan. He currently works in media relations.
On Christmas night, 1939, two vastly different teams from Garfield, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida collided in the historic Orange Bowl to decide the National Sports Foundation’s national championship. Garfield’s Boilermakers were children of immigrants drawn to the industrial city’s churning factories...
On Christmas night, 1939, two vastly different teams from Garfield, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida collided in the historic Orange Bowl to decide the National Sports Foundation’s national championship. Garfield’s Boilermakers were children of immigrants drawn to the industrial city’s churning factories...
The Test is a coming of age tale, set on Long Island in 1963, that deals with race, violence, social politics, and young love. It was a time when suburban America was about to undergo seismic societal changes...
For millennia, man has grappled with the notion that there are beings that connect us to a higher order, to Gods. In this study, Sulavik draws from exhaustive research to elucidate the origins of angels--not only from the Christian perspective, but also from other religions such as Judaism and Zoroastrianism...
If you thought Moscow's propaganda campaigns ended with the Cold War, think again. The Kremlin's efforts to influence global discourse has only grown more sophisticated with the creation of state-run, English-language broadcaster RT...
Following his parents' deaths, a son discovers their personal journals and uses them to piece together the evolution of their marriage, its break-up and the lives they lived and the many they touched.
For 15 years, Esquire's Scott Raab has intimately (and wittily) profiled celebrities--from Will Ferrell and Sean Penn to Ryan Seacrest and Bill Murray--and more. In Real Hollywood Stories, Raab presents his greatest hits--22 profiles from Esquire and GQ--with 20-plus stories of fresh perspective--on what it means; feels like to get up close and personal with the biggest stars of our time.
Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming-of-age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing up in New York's Greenwich Village and crime-ridden Alphabet City in the 70s and early 80s...
With sharp wit and humor, veteran golf Journalist and historian Jim Apfelbaum examines the game's oddities, rarities, heroes and duffers. A hilarious yet insightful look at how the game has bamboozled players for over 400 years...perhaps now more than ever. Among the author's swing thoughts: The story behind Ben Hogan's secret sixth lesson... The 3 putt that Bobby Jones nearly fanned.....
Grantland Rice (1880-1954), famous for his musings and sports stories in the New York Herald Tribune, was arguably the best-loved sports writer of the 20th century. He ultimately established himself nationally in New York at the Herald Tribune. Rice was famous for his literary flourishes, and some of his writing has survived as classic American idioms...
In this elegiac and brutally honest debut work, a young artist, Rain Morton, attempts to make her mark in Manhattan's art world despite the weight of influence upon her: her art critic husband, her art dealer step-mother and her father, a renowned author...
Two startling, quirky and wry novellas that present allegorical worlds around life, death and art. Graphite presents an otherworldly tale of a man in search of the source for the world's most perfect graphite lead cores, turning up a revelation profoundly altering his life. In Brighter, Jano Gambon, a decadent art dealer reveals events that led him to his honor and horror during his final days.
Snipers, shelling, car bombs, suicide attacks. This is Beirut 1983, and Lara McCauley is an outsider in a city at war. Against this chaotic canvas, Lara tries to hold her marriage together, but her life is quietly falling apart...
A best-selling resource for men's style and clothing, The Indispensable Guide to Classic Men's Clothing takes the mystery out of dressing well. This volume answers hundreds of questions about classic articles in a man's wardrobe, from ascots to wingtips...