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Sam Kashner

Sam Kashner


Sam Kashner is a Writer at Large for AIR MAIL. He has written extensively for Vanity Fair and is the author of several books including Sinatralandand the memoir When I Was Cool. With Ash Carter, Kashner, who lives in New York, is a co-author of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends.

The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business

Eric Roberts was being groomed for stardom, until a cocaine habit derailed his career—and nearly cost him his life. Now his only addiction is to acting

The Wreck of the Bayesian

To celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal, billionaire Mike Lynch set sail on his “unsinkable” 184-foot yacht. The Fates weren’t with him

When Film Set the Fashion

Theadora Van Runkle—the costume designer behind Bonnie and Clyde, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair—defined Hollywood cool

The Muse Who Became a Sage

Marianne Faithfull inspired some of the greatest songs of the 60s and left her own indelible mark on the music of Brecht and Bob Dylan alike

To Edward R. Murrow. Love, Marlene Dietrich

He was America’s pre-eminent newsman. She was an international sex symbol. They both hated bullies

A Forgotten Master of Pulp Fiction

The only thing more noir than the work of writer Cornell Woolrich may have been his own life