Gentlemen of Hampden-Sydney

I’ve listed Hampden-Sydney again this year as the most preppy college in the South.  It was founded in 1775, when …

Rothko, a Cigar and Strong Black Coffee

Hub City Bookstore is a great independently run bookstore in Spartanburg, SC. On a rainy Saturday morning not long ago, I …

Tad Friend – A True Wasp

Tad Friend, in his 2009 memoir Cheerful Money:  Me, My Family and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, reveals in …

Interview with Lisa Birnbach

Matt Nelson interviewed Lisa Birnbach for Borders a few years back when True Prep was published, a book she co-authored …

Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style

A new book exploring the origins of what has become known as the preppy/ivy style is due out from Rizzoli …