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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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Long on Trump

February 1, 2017 by Jessica Pressler

The bar at the front of the Hunt and Fish Club, the upscale steak-and-martinis joint just off Times Square, has floor-to-ceiling plateglass windows, presumably not so that its customers can have a panoramic view of 44th Street but so that people outside can see what a great time the people inside are having. The restaurant, […]

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Your Hate Only Makes Amanda Chantal Bacon Stronger

December 6, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

Amanda Chantal Bacon arrives at Blue Bottle Coffee, rosy-cheeked and windswept. “I had meetings this morning, so I got robbed of my power and spirit,” she apologizes, placing her almond-milk latte on the counter and rummaging through her oversize handbag. I’m opening my mouth to begin commiserating about the soul-sucking nature of meetings when she […]

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It’s Time You Learned Tove Lo’s Name

December 6, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

One night this summer, Tove Lo was in a bar in Brooklyn, getting hit on by a guy. What’s your name, he asked, the singer recalls afterward. Tove, she said. What do you do? I’m a singer. Then she saw it, the briefest flicker of recognition. She watched his alcohol-infused synapses slowly make the connections. […]

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Getting Arrested Was the Best Thing To Ever Happen to Jeremy Meeks

December 6, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

  Jim Jordan curls his bare toes around the edge of his pool, which looks out over the rolling hills and canyons of Calabasas, California. Earlier, when he’d gotten to the point in his life story where he said “I had everything that the world tells you that you need to be happy, but I […]

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Magical Thinking

December 6, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

It was the middle of the night, and Elizabeth Gilbert was curled up in a ball of grief, confusion, and despair. “I found myself in a heap on the couch, around a pillow, huddled and shaking,” the author tells the crowd that has come to see her at Brooklyn’s BRIC House arts center on a […]

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A Definitive History of Socialite Rank

November 28, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

On the list of significant dates in New York City history, April 24, 2006, does not rank high. But as Fabiola Beracasa’s grandmother used to say, “When you are in the middle of the soup you can’t see the edge of the bowl,” and at the time New York was firmly in the middle of […]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Olivia Palermo, Socialite Rank, Tinsley Mortimer, Town and Country

With “Master of None,” Aziz Ansari Has Created a True American Original

November 28, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

Aziz Ansari calls 15 minutes before our scheduled interview. “Hey, it’s Aziz,” he says cheerily, as though he’s a friend and not the celebrated  comedian, actor and writer who created a new American original in the form of Dev Shah, the character he plays in his groundbreaking Netflix show, “Master of None.” Aziz—since we’re on […]

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Shopping at the Grove With Ryan Lochte, Who Just Got His First Credit Card

October 16, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

When Ryan Lochte suggests we meet by the fountain at the Grove, the outdoor mall in Los Angeles, it’s understandable, in a Splash kind of way. The man has spent most of his 32 years in the water — of course he’d want to keep it near at all times. By the time he arrives, […]

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What Will HBO’s Sesame Street Look Like?

January 12, 2016 by Jessica Pressler

In August, PBS made a surprising announcement: It was handing over the reins of its iconic children’s show Sesame Street to HBO, where new episodes will begin airing this month. To outsiders, the idea of putting Big Bird and Elmo on the same shelf as Game of Thrones and Cathouse: The Series seemed odd — not least because, as many pointed out, Sesame Street’s […]

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Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short, Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is Looming

December 28, 2015 by Jessica Pressler

Real-life Michael Burry (left), and Christian Bale (right), who played Burry in the film The Big Short. Photo: Getty Images, Plan B Entertainment If The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 financial crisis and the subject of last month’s Vulture cover story, got you all worked up over the holidays, you’re probably wondering what […]

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Christian Bale on The Big Short and Meeting the Real-Life American Psychos

November 29, 2015 by Jessica Pressler

“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman first […]

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Bullsh*t — The Art of the Sell

May 4, 2015 by Jessica Pressler

Steven Panariello was having a hard time keeping his pants on. The Droga5 account director was sitting, fingers pressed against the edge of the conference-room table, head cocked toward the speakerphone, which was emitting what may be his least favorite sound: silence. “So, um, I’m trying to think how to start,” a voice piped up. “Obviously, […]

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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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