In this month’s “Stars & Cars” at Vanity Fair, I chat with polymath Apolo Ohno about rollover wrecks, Olympic car swag, and driving with his skates on, and offer an EXCLUSIVE preview of the gorgeous custom 1964 Cadillac Convertible he’ll be premiering at the SEMA show tomorrow.

These hot vehicles all deliver the Smarties, but also have some mischief up their tailpipes. Find out how and why at Vanity Fair.

Lauren Myracle was just nominated for a National Book Award. Then, she was un-nominated. I give her a call to get the EXCLUSIVE full story, and to talk to her about bra shopping, her “depraved and pathologically lurid” Y.A. fiction, and Satanic cannibal Republican Presidential candidates, all for Vanity Fair.

Stick Shift marks its triumphant return to weekly Vanity Fair car coverage with this report on the $130,000 Mercedes-based Airstream Interstate R.V., and the vital/creepy world of “Luxury Motorcoach Resorts.”

This week’s episode was admirably cohesive and emotional, even anthemic. But it forgot to be funny.
Read the full Gee-cap at Vanity Fair.

The Chicago Tribune twisted my arm and forced me to act as parenting expert again, this time offering advice on what to do if your in-laws mouth their belief in something you revile–racism, homophobia, Republicanism–in front of the kids.