Beauty and Ugliness In Manhattan

Susan Braudy is a journalist and author. She clawed her way from Philadelphia to Manhattan. She wrote the memoir Between Marriage and Divorce: A Woman's Diary, two novels Who Killed Sal Mineo? and What the Movies Made Me Do: A Novel as well as two highly researched non-fiction books This Crazy Thing Called Love: The Golden World and Fatal Marriage of Ann and Billy Woodward and Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left. The last was nominated by publisher Alfred Knopf for a Pulitzer.  She is a frequent blogger on the Huffington Post.

And she's a voyeur. There's more>>

For years, Susan has experienced the wonder of serendipity in the big city and savors the details of urban life that often elude those rushing through life. She enjoys telling the stories of the sung and the unsung. At E.A.T. restaurant she loses her appetite but is captivated by an explicit description delivered by a debonair Englishman sitting near her of stalking, killing and cutting off a fox’s tail – his murderer’s trophy. In Central Park she stumbles upon a marijuana deal and can’t resist interviewing dealer and buyer. She's totally fascinated and sometimes that breeds fearlessness. There's more>>