Excited to announce 'I Don't Want to Go Home,' my oral history of The Stone Pony, is available for pre-order!

With 100s of interviews, from @Springsteen, @stevieVanZandt and Southside Johnny to The Gaslight Anthem, the Jonas Brothers & more.

Out in early June! harpercollins.com/products/i-don…

Drilling 3s, working refs, signing bald heads: Caitlin Clark is the biggest star in college basketball. What comes next?

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I wrote about a, uh, treasured family tradition for New York Times Travel. nytimes.com/2024/01/05/tra…

“Maybe I’ve just been called a right-wing crazy for so long that I thought I was,” Tucker Carlson told me. “But if I agree with pretty much everything Russell Brand says, I don’t know what I am.”

For NYT Magazine this week: “Russell Brand's Alternate Reality.” nytimes.com/2023/11/13/mag…

'In a life of myriad miseries, the girl resigned herself to more.' A remarkable and harrowing investigation into juvenile lockup from Seven Days: sevendaysvt.com/vermont/woodsi…

“Rudy loves opera,” Bill Bratton said. “Few operas end in a happy place.”

Maggie Haberman and me on a long-fraught subject for Giuliani allies -- his drinking -- and the attention it's earned from prosecutors in Trump's election case.

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EXCLUSIVE: The secret hand behind Andrew Cuomo’s online army? His sister, it turns out.

For 18 months, Madeline Cuomo back channeled with grass-roots groups to help smear Andrew's accusers and rehab his image. He was “seeing everything,” she said.
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“I think we’re coming to a fork in the road,” Mike Pence told me last weekend.

The fork has arrived.

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Andrew Cuomo spent $1 billion to build a factory for Elon Musk — a would be solar panel factory that was supposed to save Buffalo.

What the state got in return: “the biggest economic development boondoggle in American history.” From Julie Bykowicz and me.

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The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True? rb.gy/tj0lu

Some news out of Park Slope. nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyr…

“There’s sort of a nihilism at the core.”

In print today: Gutfeld(!)(?)(.)

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This was a warm, funny, tough, and decent man. I miss him already.

DeSantis 2024 began with a moment of silence. And then several more.

How a zeitgeisty gambit devolved into a conference call from hell:
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'You have a moment,' his wife would say, arguing against waiting.

Ron and Casey DeSantis believe this moment is theirs. nytimes.com/2022/09/13/mag…

The operative and the governor looked miserable.

'Shake hands,' Trump instructed. They did not.

How Susie Wiles, banished by DeSantis, became the unwitting embodiment of the Trump-DeSantis conflict.

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Steve Cohen and Chris Christie have something rare in common: gigantic public crises circa 2013/14. Christie, now a Mets board member, said the experiences became “one of the bases of the friendship.”

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“He’s a businessman,” John Catsimatidis said. “Tell me who’s in power, and I’ll tell you who Steve is endorsing.”

Cohen's long arc is a baseball/finance story, yes, but also increasingly a political one in NY. He's eyeing a casino, as it happens... nytimes.com/2023/03/26/spo…