Other Writing
Book
Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Published by Random House in 1995. Paperback edition by Da Capo Press in 1997.
Articles & Essays
“Nightmares Are Welcome Shocks”
NYTimes.com, August 1, 2010
I still wake up with a sense of panic, yet I wouldn't change these nightmares even if I could...
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“Swept Away”
Vogue, August 2010
Young and in love, Patricia Morrisroe moved into her boyfriend's Sutton Place apartment only to have her visions of a romantic summer subsumed by a family drama...
“Wide Awake in Vegas”
Huffington Post, May 24, 2010
Nobody sleeps in Las Vegas. I know that's a gross generalization, but having spent nearly a week there for my new book Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, I came away with the distinct impression that Vegas, at least sleep-wise, was the Village of the Damned...
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“Long Night's Journey Into Sleep”
The New York Times, May 20, 2010
For my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, our family went to Ireland to discover our roots and had the best sleep of our lives in a little town in County Sligo. Ten years later, we're still talking about that incredible night...
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“The Place Where Dreams Are Made”
wowOwow.com, May 3, 2010
An insomniac reflects on the biggest bed of all...
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“More Than Enough Hours in Every Day”
The New York Times, April 3, 2010
For some elderly people, insomnia can be the gift of extra hours, extra life. At 87, Patricia Morrisroe's mother-in-law is using that time to acquire the education she never had by working her way through the canon of great literature...
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“The Bride Wears Black”
Departures Magazine, March/April 2010
Vera Wang is staring at a model dressed in nothing but a transparent piece of black tulle and a pair of brightly colored panties. The model is shivering slightly but nobody seems to notice, least of all Wang, who is focused intently on the way the fabric floats over the young woman’s barely-there torso. “It needs to have more of an edge,” she says in her distinctive nasal voice, an unholy marriage between Park and Seventh avenues...
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“A Thousand And One Sleepless Nights”
The New York Times, February 25, 2010
When someone says, “I don’t sleep,” what exactly do they mean? Patricia Morrisroe weighs in at the Times’ All-Nighters blog…
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“Holiday on Ice”
Departures Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2007
Some 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Patricia Morrisroe finally meets a reindeer and finds a cure for her sleepless nights…
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“Grandmother’s Travel Memories”
Travel + Leisure, Dec. 2007
Knowing her grandmother only through photo albums, Patricia Morrisroe tries to retrace her mysterious world travels…
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“Stephen Sprouse – The Punk Glamour God”
New York Magazine, April 5, 2004
At 14, Stephen Sprouse interned with Bill Blass. At 18, he was Halston’s right hand. He traipsed through the eighties with Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol, brokering the marriage between art, rock, and fashion. But he never made it from cult figure to the legend he might have been…
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“The Demon Romantics”
Vanity Fair, July 1995
When a Cincinnati museum was charged with obscenity for showing Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, his name became synonymous with “deviant” art. In an excerpt from her biography, Patricia Morrisroe untangles the Gordian knot of Mapplethorpe’s work and his sexuality, and examines his relationship with punk-rock poet Patti Smith – a perverse mix of love, jealousy, and ambition…
“American Beauty”
New York Magazine, May 30, 1988
The world of Geoffrey Beene…
“Bess and the Mess”
New York Magazine, March 30, 1987
Myerson’s slide into scandal…
“The Death and Life of Perry Ellis”
New York Magazine, August 11, 1986
“The New Snobbery”
New York Magazine, April 7, 1986
The world of “we happy few”…
“Exodus”
New York Magazine, November 25, 1985
How creative young people are being driven out of Manhattan…
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“AIDS: One Man’s Story”
New York Magazine, August 19, 1985
“Obsession”
New York Magazine, March 18, 1985
The murder of an elusive beauty…
“Restaurant Madness”
New York Magazine, November 26, 1984
Sex, exercise, and apartment hunting can’t match… RESTAURANT MADNESS…
“The Prime of Amy Clampitt”
Originally published in New York Magazine, October 15, 1984
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“Forever Single”
New York Magazine, August 20, 1984
Will some baby-boomers be forever single?
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“A Voice From the Wasteland: A Profile of Raymond Carver”
Originally published in The Sunday Times Magazine [London], January 29, 1984
“Portrait of a Lady”
New York Magazine, October 3, 1983
The saga of a survivor on the Upper West Side…