Tag: New York City

• New mystery explores New York in the 1910s and 1990s

  

  Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions gallantly standing at the steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, were only 2 years old when Jack Lyons, along with his wife and two children, moves into a large apartment hidden away on the library’s mezzanine floor. It’s all part…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 20, 2020

  Culture, Historic Architecture, mystery

  #netgallery, #TheLionsofFifthAvenue, Dutton, Fiona Davis, Historical Fiction, New York City, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, Women's Suffrage

• Park Avenue Summer

  

  Chicago author Renee Rosen describes her latest novel, Park Avenue Summer as “Mad Men Meets the Devil Wears Prada.”

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  June 25, 2019

  Fiction

  Book Review, Cosmopolitan, New York City, Park Avenue Summer, Renee Rosen, Shelf Life

• Park Avenue Summer

  

                Chicago-based author Renee Rosen typically writes novels about historic periods and people in Chicago such as the age of jazz (Windy City Blues); mid-20th century journalism (White Collar Girl) and the Roaring Twenties (Dollface). But in Park Avenue Summer, her latest novel which she describes as “Mad Men the Devil Wears Prada,” she takes…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 29, 2019

  Author event, Book Cellar, Book signings, Book Stall, Chicago

  Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, New York City, Renee Rosen