Anna Wintour, Michael Zilkha, Julian Sands, Alex Belth, Adam Moss, A. Scott Berg, and Anne Taylor Fleming celebrating the launch of Jon Bradshaw’s The Ocean Is Closed
Virtual Author Event
Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00 PM Eastern
About the presenters:
On the occasion of the release of The Ocean is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations, Vogue’s Anna Wintour joins Ze Books publisher Michael Zilkha, collection editor Alex Belth, biographer A. Scott Berg, journalist Anne Taylor Fleming, and editor Adam Moss to discuss the life and work of the late Jon Bradshaw. Actor Julian Sands will offer a short reading from one of Bradshaw’s best-known articles.
Jon Bradshaw is a forgotten master of longform magazine writing, whose work was featured in New York Magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, and others. Charming British royalty, magazine editors, movie executives, and professional mercenaries alike, Bradshaw first made a splash in London during the Swinging Sixties. He was a literary concoction of his own devising: the magazine writer as world-weary traveler and man about town. He was referred to by some as the “Indiana Jones of journalism.” His articles were at the center of the cultural conversation, and for twenty years, he cut a distinct figure until his untimely death in 1986. Bradshaw is ripe for rediscovery as one of the sharpest chroniclers of his age. “Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters.” —Martin Amis
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