The Night Fever

Book Club

Every book, magazine, gossip column and newspaper the guests drop - from diaries read aloud to the columns that made the Club Kids famous. Tap a timestamp to hear the moment it comes up.

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  1. 25 mentions · 6 episodes
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Dinah Prince's and Billy Norwich's columns
    • S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein · - Covered their outfits
    • S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · - Rudolf says it wrote about the illegal first Danceteria before the club was busted
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - Where Michelangelo says Suzy's column ran; he says the paper chickened out of the Forbes exclusive
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Billy's paper: the Uptown column, then his own column, for six years
    • S6E7 · Sally Randall · - Ran a full page on Sally's Superstar - which brought the lawyers' letter; and where the It crowd looked for their mentions
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    DetailsMagazines
    23 mentions · 10 episodes
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Annie Flanders's magazine; Musto worked there from 1982
    • S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein · - Its crew went to the Lagerfeld dinner; Howie wrote for it
    • S2E3 · Susanne Bartsch · - Annie Flanders' magazine; printed the Love Ball programme
    • S3E6 · Eric Goode · - Where Stephen Saban wrote about Eric
    • S4E8 · Richie Rich · - Where Richie first read James
    • S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell · - Published Chi Chi's first big piece, Nations, in late 1988; she says Details paid her for it
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - One of the magazines putting fashion and music together, as Nick recalls; Steven Meisel shot for it
    • S5E3 · Amanda Lepore · - Amanda devoured it while still married; after the Cave Canem opening she was its 'It' girl, as James remembers
    • S2E6 · Michael Schmidt · - Annie Flanders's magazine; Michael's chain-mail dress made its cover, James recalls
    • S1E6 · Waltpaper · - What Walt's friend studied before they arrived
  3. 15 mentions · 2 episodes
    • S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein · - What he wore, where he went and who was there - read aloud on the show
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - James combs them for the day he met Michelangelo; one Paradise Garage night fills six pages
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    Village VoiceNewspapers
    15 mentions · 6 episodes
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    14 mentions · 4 episodes
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - Phototeam bought pages in magazines like Vogue for its advertorials
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Billy was an editor there while still writing his column, over lunch with the door closed
    • S6E7 · Sally Randall · - Ran a piece before the Palladium opened saying no one would be able to get in, as James's diary has it
    • S4E4 · Zaldy · - Teenage Zaldy read his friend's copies
  6. 6
    New York PostNewspapers
    12 mentions · 5 episodes
    • S1E1 · Dianne Brill · - Ran an iconic cover of Dianne with the lotto numbers and no headline
    • S1E3 · Lisa Edelstein · - Covered their outfits and the memorial
    • S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · - Rudolf says it wrote about the illegal first Danceteria before the club was busted
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Lured Suzy away with a ton of money, Billy says; later hired Billy for two years
    • S1E4 · Peter Gatien · - Peter calls it Giuliani's newsletter back then
  7. 12 mentions · 7 episodes
  8. 9 mentions · 6 episodes
  9. 9
    OutWeekMagazines
    9 mentions · 3 episodes
  10. 10
    Vanity FairMagazines
    9 mentions · 5 episodes
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - Where James first saw Diane Brill
    • S1E1 · Dianne Brill · - Where James first saw a tiny photo of Dianne
    • S4E8 · Richie Rich · - Leo was on its cover the month he came to the party
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - James remembers its article on Brooke Astor and Jane Wrightsman
    • S4E4 · Zaldy · - Beyoncé wore Zaldy's dress on its music-issue cover; Mathu had a shoot for it too
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    9 mentions · 5 episodes
  12. 12
    Rolling StoneMagazines
    7 mentions · 3 episodes
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - James credits it with putting the See Jungle cover in a top 10; the ranking we found is No. 10 in the book The 100 Best Album Covers
    • S2E6 · Michael Schmidt · - Covers with Rihanna's mesh Daisy Dukes and Gaga's bubbles; teenage Michael drew Tina from it
    • S3E8 · Larry Tee · - Electroclash on its cover
  13. 6 mentions · 3 episodes
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    6 mentions · 2 episodes
  15. 6 mentions · 1 episode
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - The Daily News's twin society columns: Dinah Prince downtown on Mondays and Wednesdays, Billy uptown on Tuesdays and Thursdays
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    5 mentions · 1 episode
    • S5E3 · Amanda Lepore · - Amanda's memoir - James calls it a must-read; she says she has never read it but will record the audiobook
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    Page Six (New York Post)Columns & articles
    5 mentions · 2 episodes
  18. 5 mentions · 1 episode
  19. 5 mentions · 1 episode
  20. 4 mentions · 3 episodes
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - Musto's piece after Warhol's death. Article not found online; links to Musto
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto's piece on the scene after Warhol died, ending with a prediction of a comeback
    • S3E6 · Eric Goode · - Musto's famous article; James sums it up. Article not found online; links to Musto
  21. 4 mentions · 1 episode
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - James's novel, which opens with his first day of high school. The novel has no page; links to the 2017 film adaptation
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    Project XMagazines
    4 mentions · 4 episodes
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - Club-scene magazine James wrote for. No page of its own; mentioned on the Club Kids page
    • S4E8 · Richie Rich · - Club kid magazine; James's list of out-of-town club kids
    • S5E3 · Amanda Lepore · - James first interviewed Amanda for it when she arrived on the scene
    • S3E8 · Larry Tee · - Larry on the cover of the second issue
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    After DarkMagazines
    3 mentions · 2 episodes
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - James guessed it was where Musto interviewed Sylvia
    • S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · - The wondrous New York magazine Tim Dunlavey brought back to West Virginia; Ann's community theatre director had it too
    • S1E1 · Dianne Brill · - Dianne's bestselling style and beauty book (Penguin, 1992)
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    i-DMagazines
    3 mentions · 3 episodes
  25. 3 mentions · 1 episode
    • S6E3 · Chi Chi Valenti & Johnny Dynell · - Chi Chi's piece on night tribes, among them the House of Xtravaganza; she says it inspired the Love Ball and Malcolm McLaren used its ending
  26. 3 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Amy Virshup's story that named the Club Kids; later interviewed Alig
  27. 29
    NewsdayNewspapers
    3 mentions · 2 episodes
  28. 3 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto's 2007 cover story on Jodie Foster and Anderson Cooper
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    3 mentions · 2 episodes
  30. 3 mentions · 2 episodes
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    The FaceMagazines
    3 mentions · 2 episodes
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - Also on Nick's list of iconic magazines
    • S3E8 · Larry Tee · - Chicks on Speed on its cover; a Face writer lived in Larry's loft
  32. 3 mentions · 1 episode
    • S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · - The new Pyramid book by Brian Butterick, Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas; James read an excerpt where Ann describes moving on from Club 57
  33. 2 mentions · 2 episodes
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - James's OutWeek column that impressed Fenton and Randy. Column title not confirmed online; links to OutWeek
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - James's column in OutWeek - he got it after writing an angry letter about the Forbes story
    • S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · - Rudolf's finished book of nightlife stories, written in Portuguese, ending with the sociology of the night; he'd like to have it translated
  34. 2 mentions · 2 episodes
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto likens an Area invitation - a capsule that opened in water - to Alice in Wonderland
    • S3E6 · Eric Goode · - Source of the caterpillar in Area's Fairy Tales window
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    BillboardMagazines
    2 mentions · 2 episodes
  36. 2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - Book his mother read him; source of his audition song; title unclear
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    CircusMagazines
    2 mentions · 1 episode
  38. 2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto's guide to the downtown scene, with Warhol's name bigger than his
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    FAD MagazineMagazines
    2 mentions · 1 episode
  40. 2 mentions · 1 episode
  41. 2 mentions · 1 episode
  42. 2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto's Village Voice column (from 1984) and the collection of it
  43. 2 mentions · 1 episode
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    Ms. Lonely HeartsColumns & articles
    2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Heimel's unsigned advice column; Musto wrote in as 'the Brooklyn Kid'
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    New York TalkMagazines
    2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S6E7 · Sally Randall · - Sally had a nightlife column there; she suggested James write a sample column to take it over - his first try at writing
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    NewsweekMagazines
    2 mentions · 1 episode
  47. 2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - The nightlife magazine Michelangelo wrote his gossip column for (heard as New York Nightlife; his papers at NYU call it Nightlife magazine)
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    OmniMagazines
    2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S1E10 · Joey Arias · - Klaus's stage name came from it, as Joey tells it
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    PaperMagazines
    2 mentions · 2 episodes
  50. 2 mentions · 2 episodes
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    SpyMagazines
    2 mentions · 2 episodes
  52. 2 mentions · 1 episode
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - The idea behind the Sugar Kane video, as Nick explains it
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    2 mentions · 2 episodes
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    W magazineMagazines
    2 mentions · 2 episodes
  55. 2 mentions · 1 episode
  56. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S3E6 · Eric Goode · - Saban's piece on the Club with No Name. Article not found online
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    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Billy's freelance Daily News piece on how to be a social climber in New York, laid out as a Monopoly board
  58. 1 mention · 1 episode
  59. 1 mention · 1 episode
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    ArtnetMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E7 · Sally Randall · - Ran the article Sally cites about art referencing work it doesn't know
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    1 mention · 1 episode
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    BridesMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Where Anna Wintour joked she could always get Billy a job, as he tells it (heard as 'Brooklyn... rides')
    • S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · - MoMA's book on the club; James and Randy have their copies
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    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S4E8 · Richie Rich · - Trading cards that also worked as door passes; Richie is in the second series
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    1 mention · 1 episode
  65. 69
    CosmopolitanMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
  69. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - James's 'holy grail' as a teenager. Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton (1982); no page of its own
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    Elle DecorMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  71. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S1E7 · Rudolf Piper · - Eve Babitz's book about the Fiorucci shop that Rudolf has just read
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    FlauntMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S5E3 · Amanda Lepore · - The shoot where, Amanda says, LaChapelle decided she looked better without clothes
  73. 1 mention · 1 episode
  74. 78
    GlamourMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
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    GQMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  76. 1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
  78. 1 mention · 1 episode
  79. 1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
  81. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · - Stanley Strychacki's book on the club's beginnings (Ann calls it My Life as Art)
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    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S2E8 · Michelangelo Signorile · - Ran a story about outing that carried the Forbes story around the country, as Michelangelo tells it
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    MademoiselleMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  84. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto's novel; James is the 'thinly veiled' Flavio Laurent
  85. 1 mention · 1 episode
  86. 1 mention · 1 episode
  87. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S1E6 · Waltpaper · - Walt's book - first about 500 pages, cut off in 1996 to stay an affordable art book
  88. 1 mention · 1 episode
  89. 1 mention · 1 episode
  90. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - Nick says he has just signed with Rizzoli for a book on Malcolm's Duck Rock period; no listing found yet
  91. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S3E1 · Patricia Field · - Field's 2023 memoir: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules
  92. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S4E10 · Ann Magnuson · - Probably the book by Chicago academics on Seidelman's films that Ann just received, with a chapter on Making Mr. Right, she says
  93. 1 mention · 1 episode
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    Skin TwoMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  95. 1 mention · 1 episode
  96. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E1 · James St. James · - James's unpublished early-90s manuscript, partly reused in Freak Show
  97. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S1E4 · Peter Gatien · - Peter's memoir: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife - published, he says, the week COVID hit
  98. 1 mention · 1 episode
  99. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S1E2 · Michael Musto · - Musto asked James to be the friend in an Inquirer interview
  100. 1 mention · 1 episode
  101. 1 mention · 1 episode
    • S2E4 · Nikki Haskell · - Nikki's book; her PR man wanted her to lose the Studio 54 image
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    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S6E8 · William Norwich · - Billy says it wrote about authors' enemies leaving bad Amazon reviews
  103. 1 mention · 1 episode
  104. 108
    TV GuideMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
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    1 mention · 1 episode
  106. 1 mention · 1 episode
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    VisionaireMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  108. 112
    Vogue ItaliaMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
    • S5E4 · Nick Egan · - Nick says its austere shots against white were a big influence, and he brought that look to music
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    WallpaperMagazines
    1 mention · 1 episode
  110. 1 mention · 1 episode
  111. 1 mention · 1 episode

The list fills itself from my episode indexes, so every new Afterparty adds its reading. Titles link to their card in Everything A–Z; "Find a copy" searches the free Open Library catalogue.