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Meet the Rightful Queen on My 13th Blogversary

July 23, 2020 by WendyB

In honor of my 13th blogversary today, I’ve overcome some long-running technical problems and broken into my own blog in order to say hello. My dire need for a new website/blog developer (comment with your resume!) reminds me of the good old days of my blog’s random removal from listings by the now-defunct search-engine Technorati…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, anniversaries, Arts & Entertainment, authors, blogversary, book club, books, Special Occasions Tagged With: isabelle steiger, Paths of Lantistyne, the empire's ghost, the rightful queen

RIP, Elizabeth Wurtzel

January 8, 2020 by WendyB

Writer Elizabeth Wurtzel died yesterday at age 52 of leptomeningeal disease — a complication of metastatic breast cancer that had spread to the fluid around the brain and spinal cord. I met Elizabeth on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. I know the exact date because we were at a black-tie dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, authors, books, In the News, obits Tagged With: bitch, depression, elizabeth wurtzel, lizzie wurtzel, more now again, prozac, prozac nation

Wednesday’s Video: Drinks With Author Syl Tang

October 11, 2017 by WendyB

To mix things up a bit on my YouTube channel, I decided to interview some of the cool people I know. To make sure the interviews are lively, my guest and I are going to do our interviews over drinks! Here’s the first video of the “Tipsy Talk” interview series, featuring futurist and author Syl…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, Arts & Entertainment, authors, books, video Tagged With: author interviews, tipsy talk video

The Empire’s Ghost by Isabelle Steiger

May 22, 2017 by WendyB

Congratulations to Isabelle Steiger — my stepdaughter — whose debut novel, The Empire’s Ghost, has been published by Thomas Dunne Books! The Empire’s Ghost is the first book in an epic-fantasy trilogy that’s set in a once-magical world, where the ruthless dictator Elgar schemes to seize control of an entire continent. He’s prepared to kill…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, authors, books Tagged With: epic fantasy, fantasy book, isabelle steiger, summer reading, the empire's ghost

Style That Just Doesn’t Quit

January 12, 2015 by WendyB

While watching the Golden Globes last night, I was captivated by Jane Fonda. Jane presented the award for Best Actor in a Comedy alongside her 9 to 5 partner-in-crime, Lily Tomlin (I wished Dolly Parton had joined them!). I enjoyed the Jane-Lily banter. Jane said, “You know, it’s nice — it’s nice — that men,…

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Filed Under: authors, awards shows, Celebrities, Golden Globes

Bright Lipstick Is Back and I’m Out of Time

March 15, 2012 by WendyB

The Wall Street Journal has a story headlined, “Very Bright Lipstick, All the Time.” In it, Elizabeth Holmes writes: “In the beauty world’s eternal cycle between eyes and lips, it’s lipstick’s moment. Many women are adopting a signature standout lipstick color—bright red, rich coral, vivid pink—to wear day or night with everything in their closet.”…

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Filed Under: authors, Fashion Repeats Itself, red lipstick, stores, vintage designers, vintage WendyB photos

On the Town: Huffington and Didion at Columbia Spectator Dinner

February 17, 2011 by WendyB

I work on a lot of non-jewelry and non-blog projects, but I don’t always write about them here. One of those — which I alluded to in this December post but didn’t name — is my chairmanship of the board of alumni trustees of the Columbia Daily Spectator, my alma mater‘s student newspaper. I was…

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Filed Under: authors, awards, Celebrities, columbia daily spectator, Good Causes, gorgeous family, on the town, outfit post, pictures of me, What Wendy Wore, zang toi

Norris Church Mailer and the Importance of Newspapers

November 23, 2010 by WendyB

I was online all morning yesterday and didn’t get to open the paper version of the New York Times till early afternoon. I was flipping past the obituary pages because I’d already seen the story about the death of Playboy-Bunny-turned-cop-turned-murderer-turned-fugitive Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek all over the web, but then I glimpsed another story made me…

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Filed Under: authors, charity, newspapers, obits

Jane Austen Is All Like, “That Dress? Bitch, Please!”

March 16, 2010 by WendyB

I went to the Morgan Library & Museum with a gorgeous and exceptionally nice friend* earlier this year. How nice is my friend? After I told her there was no need to apologize for a statement that didn’t offend me in the slightest, she apologized for the apology. She is the only person I know…

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Filed Under: authors, gorgeous friends, museums, things to do in nyc Tagged With: jane austen

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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