James Wolcott

Born and raised in Maryland, James Wolcott is a columnist for Vanity Fair and has written for The New Republic, The London Review of Books, Bookforum, and many other publications still treading water. He--I mean, I--also have a blog at the Vanity Fair website, where I keep tabs on politics, Project Runway, Mad Men, the dance scene, books, birding, and generally make a nuisance of myself, but in a fun, passionate, caring way. My wife Laura Jacobs is a novelist (her latest is The Bird Catcher), a dance critic, and Vanity Fair writer, and we live a wacky sitcom life in Manhattan with our two ocicats, Henry and Veronica, who deserve their own spinoff series. We also have a small bungalow on the Delaware Bay side of the Jersey Shore, where I sleep on the screened-in back porch and harbor any cricket who happens to pop in. My next memoir about the Seventies in NYC, those years of punk and Pauline Kael, was published in 2011 by Doubleday, which will publish a collection of my work in October, 2013.

I have just published my first Kindle Single, The Gore Supremacy, about the life and strife of writer-provocateur Gore Vidal.

I can be followed on Twitter: twitter.com/JamesWolcott