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“Inventing Anna” Now On Netflix

February 14, 2022 by Jessica Pressler

Based on original reporting by Jessica Pressler, “Inventing Anna” is the story of a journalist who chases down the truth about Anna Delvey, a Russia-born 26-year-old who convinced New York’s elite she was a German heiress.

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Cynthia Nixon Has Already Won

June 11, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, so it’s understandable that the question of why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York is one that keeps coming up. After all, Nixon has had the kind of career most actors dream about. The past two years saw her inhabiting complicated, interesting characters like […]

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“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”

June 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, who goes by “Neff,” was surprised to see the cash had come […]

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The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas

June 8, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

   For all of Patrick Stein’s life, Southwest Kansas — “God’s country,” he called it — had looked basically the same. Golden fields, white grain elevators, blue sky. But lately it was starting to look different. “Here come a couple of fucking raghead bitches,” Stein announced as he spotted a group of dark-skinned women in […]

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Meet Herman Weisberg, the Mistress Whisperer Who Handles Affairs Gone Wrong

June 7, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

  He waits for her where they have agreed to meet, at a wine bar on the Lower East Side. It’s not the sort of place he’d run into anyone he knows, but still he’s nervous, right up until she walks in. She spots him immediately—he’s the only guy in a suit—and threads her way […]

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The Hustlers at Scores

June 6, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

In another life, Roselyn Keo might have liked to work on Wall Street. “I’m smart enough, I know,” she told me, sitting in the immaculate white kitchen of her suburban home. She’s organized, she pointed out, and good at math, and there is little doubt she has an entrepreneurial streak. As a kid, she said, […]

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Are You Still Afraid of Javier Bardem?

January 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

Javier Bardem is on his knees. “Look at my face,” he explains delightedly, pointing to his iPhone, which displays a photo of him backstage at an AC/DC show. In it, he is genuflecting at the feet of the band’s lead guitarist, Angus Young, his muscular arms wrapped tightly around the diminutive rocker in a way […]

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The Thankless Task of Being Michael Moore

January 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

You’d think that by now They would have stopped giving Michael Moore such a hard time. Everything he portended in Roger & Me, his 1989 film about the impact of the closing of General Motors plants on his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and everything he has been banging on about for 30 years since — outsourcing, automation, corporate hegemony, […]

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Stanford Professor Robert Sutton Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks

January 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

We are living in a world full of assholes. To be sure: There are no census figures to back this up. There is no national registry from which to draw statistics. But one need only look at the headlines to see that the asshole population has not only grown in recent years but also spawned […]

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Silicon Valley Has Gone All-In on A Cappella

January 10, 2018 by Jessica Pressler

One of the truest things in life is that where there are nerds, there is a cappella. Thus, as Silicon Valley has taken over as the nerd capital of the world, the hills outside of San Francisco have come alive with the sound of unaccompanied vocal harmonies. “There’s like a real Silicon Valley tech-company a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: acapellla, airbnb, google, linkedin, pinterest, silicon valley, techapella

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Jessica Pressler JESSICA PRESSLER is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the the former editor of the magazine’s news blog, Daily Intelligencer, and a regular contributor to GQ and Elle. In 2015, Pressler was nominated for the National Magazine Award. Read More...

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