Sebastian Horsley | The New York Observer

Carrie Kania Makes Harper Perennial Clubhouse for Losers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:33:54 -0500

Most of the people who came to Camilla Morton’s book party at the Diane von Furstenberg showroom last Thursday night appeared to be models or DJs or photographers. Giselle Bündchen arrived in skintight leather pants. A man with a waxed handlebar mustache wandered about wearing glasses. One young lady had on an American Apparel leotard and platform heels that resembled nothing so much as toaster ovens.

Thirty-seven-year-old publisher Carrie Kania, who recently put...

The Martyrdom of Sebastian Horsley Gives Bookish Partygoers Something to Drink (Absinthe) About

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:56:20 -0400

There was an exuberance to behold last night at the Housing Works Bookstore in Soho, where a crowd of editors, agents and other usual suspects gathered to toast the British countercultural icon and author Sebastian Horsley. Mr. Horsley has written a memoir called Dandy in the Underworld, which was published in paperback last week by Harper Perennial. He could not attend last night’s party, because when he arrived at Newark International Airport from London...

Brit Author Denied Entry to U.S. for New York Underworld Party

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:37:25 -0400

Poor, British Sebastian Horsley! The British author, who has written an "eyebrow-raising" memoir detailing a life of rampant drug use and voluminous encounters with prostitutes called Dandy in the Underworld, was turned back at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday as he tried to enter the United States for his book party and New York media tour, according to the New York Times. Our city is not being so forgiving to those promiscuous folks...