Hamptons Magazine hosted their annual clambake on Sunday at the Montauk Yacht Club, and with Lamborghinis, an oxygen bar, and more food and drink options than guests could possibly know what to do with, we left the party thinking now THAT is how you throw a clambake. More»

We met Kelly Bensimon last summer, when she wasn't yet a "Real Housewife of New York" but just a mom, hanging out in the Hamptons with our friends at Plum TV (whom she did "Behind the Hedges With Kelly Killoren Bensimon" with). Since then, she has won over hearts on the show.  Friends like Dan Honan describe Kelly as "sporty and adventurous" (indeed on Plum's show they had her drive race cars, play Polo, and swimming with sharks off the coast of Montauk!) But at the heart of Kelly's character is the desire to continually broaden her horizons.

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Suite Française is an unfinished work, but why it wasn't finished makes Irene Nemirovsky's words all the more powerful. Irene was a prominent French author during the 1930's, but she was also Jewish, and died in Auschwitz while writing Suite Francaise, itself a tale of France and its people under Nazi occupation.

There are multiple stories going on, involving French of disparate social and economic class, as well as regional identities, but what is remarkable in each is Nemirovsky's objectivity. The Germans are not portrayed as purely evil; some are often shown in an altogether sympathetic light, which makes for a an educative, albeit chilling reading. More»