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It’s essays about past and present travels plus a few personal favorite places. Like the Mercer Hotel.
I’m shy. Except when I’m not.
Work hard. Focus on what you’re doing, not on what anyone else is doing.
Seeing Ian McKellen onstage as Falstaff in The Player Kings in London. Eighty-five and still at the top of his game.
Balthazar. The cheeseburger. And it’s just two blocks from the hotel. Always good. Every time.
My twenty-three year relationship with my husband Brad Goreski.
Fran Lebowitz. Because she’s Fran Lebowitz.
Go to Flushing, Queens for Chinese food. (Where I’m from!) Take the Staten Island Ferry for the best views of lower Manhattan.
Go to the Cloisters. Take a Citibike and ride on the paths along the Hudson. Go to Cafe Gitane for lunch and get the Moroccan Couscous.
Go to Shakespeare in the Park. Have been doing it since I’m eighteen. None of these things are expensive and the last one is free!
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