The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots

834 Pages·2009·25.32 MB·English

by  The New York Observer

The New York Observer
Presents
The Kingdom of New York
Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots
As Seen by The New York Observer
Introduction by Peter W. Kaplan
Contents
Our Illustrators
Interviews
The Kingdom of New York
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Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
OUR ILLUSTRATORS
Barry Blitt has been contributing weekly caricatures to The Observer since
1991, when then-editor Graydon Carter called and asked for a portrait “the size
of a softball.” Mr. Blitt’s work also appears regularly in The New Yorker, The
New York Times, Vanity Fair and many other publications.
Former “angry young man” Philip Burke first met Peter Kaplan at New
Times, to which, along with The Village Voice, he was contributing mostly
political caricatures. Among copious other magazine and newspaper work, he
had long-running stints at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone before joining The
Observer’s rotation in 1994.
Aside from illustrating a monthly cover for The New York Observer since
1993, Drew Friedman’s work also appears in Time, Newsweek, The New
Republic, The New Yorker, Mad and many others.
Robert Grossman has done cover illustrations for more than 500 issues of
national magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone
and The New Republic. Today his work can be seen regularly in The Nation, The
New York Times and The Observer. His 1977 animated film, Jimmy the C.,
earned an Academy Award nomination.
Victor Juhasz has drawn for Time, Newsweek and The New York Times as
well as (since 2005) The Observer. He is a frequent contributor to the National
Affairs section of Rolling Stone and serves on the board of directors of the
Society of Illustrators.

Interviews
Arthur Carter
Michael Thomas
Graydon Carter
Jim Windolf
Terry Golway
Susan Morrison and John Homans
Peter Stevenson
Candace Bushnell
Frank DiGiacomo
Jared Kushner