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Michael Hainey


Michael Hainey is a Writer at Large for AIR MAIL and co-hosts AIR MAIL’s weekly podcast, Morning Meeting, alongside Deputy Editor Ashley Baker. His first job was for Spy magazine, and most recently he was the Deputy Editor of GQ. Hainey, who lives in New York, is the author of After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story.

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The King of New York

Ignacio Mattos has silently ruled over the city’s dining scene for a decade. Now the chef is opening up about his upbringing, his love life, and his burning passion for good food

Life Lessons from an Italian Countess

On this week’s podcast, Bob Colacello shares what he learned from Marina Cicogna

If These Walls Could Talk …

On this week’s podcast, Christopher Mason explains why a confidante to New York’s elite hid her true identity

Inside the Night Jackie Kennedy Stared Down Onassis’s Mistress

On this week’s podcast, John Mauceri discusses an evening—and two divas—he’ll never forget

Are You in Barbra Streisand’s Memoir?

On this week’s podcast, George Kalogerakis reveals how we created the Streisand Index

My Name Is Barbra’s Index

Streisand refused to give readers any shortcuts to her 992-page memoir, so we did it for you

Graydon Carter Talks About the London He Loves

On this week’s podcast, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor takes us inside the London Issue

Aram the Cobbler

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Why Millennials and Gen Z–ers Are Fighting

On this week’s podcast, Kat Rosenfield discusses why the TikTok generation sees things very differently

How to Live to 100 (Or Not!)

On this week’s podcast, Cazzie David reveals whether Secrets of the Blue Zones is really all it promises

Why Sam Bankman-Fried Is Screwed

On this week’s podcast, Jacob Silverman reveals how the feds are crushing the bitcoin hustler

The Lost Treasures of Savile Row

At Crowley Vintage, in Brooklyn, Ralph Lauren designers and Gen Z–ers alike appeal to the past and are rewarded with the togs of their WASP fantasies

The Inside Story on the Craziest Grifter Story Ever

Listen to the editor of “The Grift, the Prince, and the Twist” as he reveals how he uncovered the con

Will a Victim’s Father Take Down the Idaho Killer?

On this week’s podcast, Howard Blum reveals how the father of one of the victims is pursuing his own investigation—and uncovering new facts

Tougher than Leather

At Lost Worlds, in Queens, the hidebound Stuart Clurman is making leather jackets to bygone specifications. And his throwback customers—rockers and actors among them—love him for it

Is This the Woman Who Could (Should?) Replace Biden?

On this week’s podcast, Peter Osnos discusses why a 52-year-old from Michigan just might have what it takes

Tom Wolfe: Master of the Universe of Literary Feuds

On this week’s podcast, the writer’s daughter reveals why no one was better at settling the score

Tom Wolfe’s Secret Weapon

On this week’s podcast, Peter Stevenson reveals how the writer’s wife secretly reported on New York’s social elite

Jimmy Buffett’s Life Lessons

On this week’s podcast, Tom Freston remembers his friend and the adventures they had together

Bar Gelateria del Molo

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The Oligarch, a Broken Heart, and a London Bank Scandal

On this week’s podcast, Joseph Bullmore takes us inside his report on Putin’s banker and a London socialite

The Man Who Captured Sinatra

On this week’s podcast, Gay Talese reveals the story behind “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” his masterpiece of magazine writing

Hot Messes in East Hampton!

On this week’s podcast, Linda Wells reveals how big egos are bringing big drama to gyms out East

Winds of Change

Comporta, Portugal, sits on the last undeveloped stretch of Atlantic Ocean coastline in Southern Europe. Will developers and tourists ruin it?