Monthly Archives: January 2012

A tiny snippet of this story, which I completed several months ago, appears in this week’s issue of New York, about the economy of celebrity. Here is the full thing, which you can’t read anywhere else.   In December of … Continue reading →

Coming back from Buenos Aires last week, I was forced to endure a layover in Lima, Peru, that began between 3 and 4 in the morning, and ended at 6 p.m. I thought, after that 15 hour layover, I would … Continue reading →

1. In Mendoza, I rode a horse through the “foothills of the Andes,” which are not to be confused with “the Andes,” as one wine-tasting tour guide corrected a travel companion who, looking pensively off in the distance out the … Continue reading →

It is an uncomfortable sight, watching thousands of fireworks rocket into the sky from every crevice of the city blocks all around you. It’s kind of like watching a bunch of people snort cocaine: you kind of want to join them just … Continue reading →