Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul’s pops his (book tour) cherry on Fire Island. As a young gay in Texas, my first brush with Fire Island was the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie Longtime Companion about the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The movie’s powerful last scene of three surviving friends walking on a deserted Fire [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘condé nast traveler’
June 3, 2010
Summering Worries
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul’s idyllic memories of “summering” are threatened by the oil spill. “Summering” has been on my mind a lot lately. One of my favorite passages I’ve been reading out loud on book tour is from Alphabet City’s Episode 3: Until I moved to the Big Apple, I had never heard [...]
April 30, 2010
Peek-A-Blog: PerrinPost.truth.travel
Today on Alphabet City: Peek-A-Blog boards the Wendy Perrin express, uncovering “Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know“* about this influential blogger, including how her print job keeps her from blogging 24/7 and what that means for PR folks. (*the name of Wendy’s book!) Returning from a quick trip to Hong Kong in February 2003—just days [...]
February 28, 2010
Bold Face Name (Again)
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul lands in PageSix gossip column (again) thanks to revelations about a supermodel. Guest star: Tyra Banks (sort of). Readers of Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom life might remember that in Episode 4 the famous gossip columnist Richard Johnson gave me a break when I was a struggling junior publicist [...]
January 8, 2010
Father Complex
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul realizes that despite his best efforts he has become his father, in a scholarly way. For many years, I’ve been concerned about turning into my father, even immersing myself in psychotherapy to ward off some of his less charming tendencies. But on holiday, I came to the conclusion that [...]
December 23, 2009
Feliz (Nervioso) Navidad
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul gets nervous about guest starring on a Mexican tele-novella. No matter how you slice it, Mexico makes me nervous. Not the country, mind you. But my in-laws, Chef’s family. I should explain that I use the name of the country as an endearing term referring to my in-laws in [...]
December 18, 2009
These Boots Are Made for Savin’
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul’s charitable giving reminds him of a dramatic time in South Africa with Ashley Judd. ‘Tis the season—for charity, evidently. Lest you think from yesterday’s post that I’m completely neurotic about the holiday season, I do often feel charitable in the last month of the year. And I’m not alone. [...]
December 1, 2009
Strider
Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul shares outtakes from his interview with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey For his interview with me just published in the December issue of Condé Nast Traveler (CLICK HERE to read online), Whole Foods CEO John Mackey showed up in hiking shorts, a polo shirt and walking shoes, and was [...]
