How America’s “Painter Laureate” Was Schooled by Wall Street
In December 2008, we reported on what appeared to be the end of Doubledown Media, publisher of a handful of magazines aimed at rich Wall Street executives, including Dealmaker, Trader Monthly, and Cigar Report. Two months later, the business officially folded after losing its credit line, but its president, Randall Lane, is still reliving his surreal experience at Doubledown -- and that’s good for all of us. This month’s Vanity Fair excerpts Lane’s new memoir, The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane, and the feature, focused on Lane’s encounter with Pop artist Peter Max, is delicious reading...
10 June 2010•3 mins read
