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Jessica Pressler

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Jessica Pressler is a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007, writing dozens of memorable feature stories on everything from the squabbles between well-to-do preschool parents and heated tensions between bird lovers and cat lovers. Her profile of the fake heiress Anna Delvey was adapted into the Netflix series Inventing Anna, and her story “Hustlers at Scores” became the Jennifer Lopez movie Hustlers.

  1. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: Mind, Body, and SchemeLast night’s Gossip Girl opened with a scene we’ve seen many times before.
  2. The Randian and the BailoutBob Benmosche was perfectly happy to while away his retirement on his Croatian vineyard. But the image of AIG employees being beaten up for thei […]
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    Gossip Girl Recap: This Will Rock the Upper East SideAs you probably know from last night’s episode of the Show of Our Time, our recapper appeared as herself.
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    Gossip Girl Recap: With Age Comes WisdomAnd so begins the Last Season of the Show of Our Time.
  5. Lisa Marie Falcone Busted After Crash in Hamptons [Update]Did gladiator sandals play a role?
  6. 122 Minutes With Jamie DimonThe JPMorgan Chase CEO is really, really, really sorry. Except when he’s not.
  7. bobos in paris
    David Brooks’s Jay-Z Man-Crush“I do listen to rap.”
  8. The Other Barbarians at the GatesThe Hamptons are Romney territory. But billionaire Jeff Greene thinks his neighbors would be wise to buy a little democracy insurance.
  9. 251 Minutes With Ken FeinbergOpening night at the opera with the victims-compensation guru and “Master of Disasters.”
  10. the unmaking of phil falcone
    Phil Falcone Responds to Securities Fraud Charges: ‘Piece of Cake’Seriously, that’s what he said.
  11. profile
    Emma Stone’s Spidey Sense Is TinglingShe knows you’re watching her.
  12. Debt HeadCleary Gottlieb attorney Lee Buchheit knows how to fix what ails Greece and Spain and Italy—though creditors may not want to hear it.
  13. wall street
    Ina Drew: JPMorgan’s Sacrificial Ma’amBehind every Wall Street scandal, there’s a female executive to take the fall.
  14. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: I’d Hoped You’d Outgrown Such BehaviorIn some ways, it’s like we’ve gone back in time on the season-five finale.
  15. dimonfreude
    Dimonfreude: Jamie Dimon’s $2 Billion Loss Is His Enemies’ GainThe SEC and Carl Levin are the latest to join the JPMorgan pile-on.
  16. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: Daddy Sang BassIn the second-to-last episode of the second-to-last (we think?) season of the Greatest Show of Our Time, everyone had a plan.
  17. The Mooch Is His Own Aflac DuckAnthony Scaramucci helps the medium-rich invest in hedge funds. Attracting clients takes some creative effort.
  18. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: No One Can Keep a SecretLike Eyes Wide Shut, but with cuddling.
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    Gossip Girl Recap: It’s Not Who’s My Mom, It’s Who’s My Dad New York’s Approval Matrix makes a star cameo in this week’s episode.
  20. The People in the ElevatorUplifting news.
  21. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: From Hapsburg to WilliamsburgMason jars. Pork buns. Pickling festivals. GG goes Brooklyn.
  22. john mack
    The Return of the Mack, Part IVWhy deal with bureaucracy when you can pay your interest directly to people who caused the financial crisis?
  23. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: It Is Your Destiny to Be Gossip-WorthyIt would be beneficial to all of the characters on Gossip Girl if they began looking at their world from a Humphrological perspective.
  24. Look Who’s BackJohn Mack is no longer at the top of Morgan Stanley. So he’s getting his fix elsewhere.
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    Gossip Girl Recap: There’s Only One Blogger in This Town Who MattersLast night, we returned from our monthlong hiatus to find a world that has been turned upside down: The Van Der Woodsens have been exiled to Brooklyn.
  26. Reverse of FortuneLizzie Grubman’s PR nightmare.
  27. Puffy Pow Pow!Combs & J.Lo flee, Champagne in hand.
  28. Wall Street’s Golden ThroneThis commode costs a load.
  29. goldman sachs
    Goldman and the Great Muppet CaperGoldman’s clients don’t care what they’re called, so long as the returns are big.
  30. Maybe This ‘Muppet’ Thing Was a MisunderstandingSome of Goldman Sachs’s clients really ARE Muppets.
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    Gossip Girl Recap: I Knew You’d Try to Steal Something and Apparently You Did“Hey, Dennis.”
  32. Gossip Girl Recap: ‘Oh No. This Is Very Bad Plan.’“Have a good day!” “I doubt that.”
  33. His. Hers.Christopher Burch’s new fashion line, C. Wonder, takes inspiration from many aspects of his life. Most notably: his ex-wife, Tory Burch, with wh […]
  34. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: Gossip Girl Knows You Better Than Your Own Mother “Your family cannot control mine.”
  35. neighborhood news
    Bushwick Hipsters Unimpressed by Violent Crime“Someone like me is not going to get mixed up directly in something like that, but you just have to kind of watch out for gun fire wherever.”
  36. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: Jesus Owes Me One“If I ever cried, I’d be moved to tears.”
  37. milestones
    Mayor Bloomberg Proclaims Today “Gossip Girl Day”“I just wish that Nate and Vanessa had been able to work things out”— Mayor Bloomberg.
  38. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: There’s a Fine Line Between Surveillance and Stalking“It’s like a Henry the Fourth kind of structure, a Falstaff thing, but he’s addicted to the drunken revelry of the West, so it’s set on a cattle ranch … ”
  39. 76 Minutes With Bethenny FrankelBabysitting with the Bravo-branded mogul after six months of filming—and learning that reality never, ever rests.
  40. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: We Used to Be Your PriorityThe deus ex machina is actually … Deus. Oh Lord.
  41. You Call That a Tree Pose?!David Regelin was a rising star in the yoga world, until he decided that he, and you, were doing everything wrong.
  42. 3. Because These Little One-Percenters Are Standing With the 99 Percent.When Sophie Hagen graduated from Swarthmore last year, a friend gave her a book called Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It […]
  43. 102 Minutes With Nicolas BerggruenAn uptown layover with the “homeless billionaire,” who has just a few plans for saving the world.
  44. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: If You Decided to Be That Person, Own It and Never Look Back“The last time I saw you concentrating that hard, you were looking at the instructions on how to assemble a hookah.”
  45. 64 Minutes With Niall FergusonA tour of the history of world civilization—the Met’s version, at least—with the historian provocateur.
  46. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: You Can Always Be Your True Self With Us“Casual? Jeans? Evite?”
  47. department of dead letters
    MF Global Cancels Fiscal Responsibility LectureWhoops!
  48. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: You Know, You May Be an Evil Genius“Without the pressure of me on top of you all the time — so to speak.”
  49. ballsy art
    Convicted Ponzi Schemer Marc Dreier Owned a Sculpture Called Big ThiefIt’s one of those little bronze dudes from the subway.
  50. overnights
    Gossip Girl Recap: No More Games, No More SecretsHa, as if.
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