Newly Revised & Updated!
While most who read this volume will have visited a museum, few will have gained entry into the inner sanctums of art appreciation. Barbara Guggenheim has lived her life in those occluded quarters — she has a doctorate in art history from Columbia and has worked at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and the Whitney Museum… Read more...
The Insider’s Guide to Los Angeles.
The guidebook even for people who live here!
To some, Los Angeles may be a dystopia of urban sprawl, strip malls, and traffic congestion. Not so for Barbara Guggenheim, the widow of famed Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields. “Quite simply, LA is the most dynamic, vibrant city on the planet,” she … Read more...
What more could possibly be said about the 30 people featured in this volume? We’ve all read their biographies or seen their biopics, and we’re up to speed about how these giants ruled countries, created great art, entertained us, invented stuff, and changed history. Enough, already!
But wait. … Read more...
Everyone claims to be perusing Proust, but who are they kidding? Confessions of a literary faker.
By Barbara Guggenheim
It’s a recurring nightmare. Dewar’s calls. They’re interviewing me for a whiskey ad and everything’s going well until the final question: “What’s the last book you’ve read?” If … Read more...