Coming soon: a documentary about Bella Hadid's boyfriend

There will be a screening at New York Fashion Week. 🤠

Sorry the letter is late, I had to visit my ACCOUNTANT this morning.

Yesterday I announced a book club for paid readers to discuss All Fours. There is already a waitlist with over 100 people but I think we’re (I’m..) going to figure out how to record it.

Do you know about “Rose Hill”?

It’s a neighborhood in Manhattan, east of Madison Square Park and north of Gramercy Park and I used to walk through it every day when I lived in Stuy Town and walked to FIT. The niceness that has been around Madison Square Park (Bezos lives on Madison Square Park, Credit Suisse is there, EMP is there), has been slowly creeping up into what was once a quieter couple of blocks of Midtown South. If you grabbed a glossy copy of New York Magazine this week, you’d see a two-page spread about Borgo, Andrew Tarlow’s new restaurant (Tarlow also runs Marlow & Sons, Roman’s, and Diner).

The neighborhood also has a new spot from Wildair’s Fabian Von Hauske and Jeremiah Stone (Tusk Bar), and Andrew Carmellini (Cafe Carmellini). And if you’ve been paying ANY attention, you know that Hillstone is booked for dinner for the next month.

Some media news:

• The Kelce brothers just got a podcast deal with Amazon’s Wondery for $100mm. Wondery, which is the podcast network behind How I Built This and some of my favorite fucked up true crime podcasts, has exclusive ad-sales and distribution rights to the popular “New Heights” weekly podcast hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce. This is the second nine-figure deal in the audio space that I’ve seen in the last two weeks (I’ve heard a lot about Cooper’s deal that I can’t write about but it sounds like she is going to have a stacked ad team over at Sirius). The market depth of these deals is maybe 2-3 bidders (Spotify, Sirius, maybe Amazon) for these trophy podcasts, and then a huge drop-off after that. Good money if you can get it, and the buyers obviously believe it’s somehow rooted in the economics, but it’s hard for me to draw the line.