Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

This week, we're taking a little trip back to the East Coast, New York City, in fact, to the toniest hot spot of all the swells in the Upper East Side.

It's a little place called Mortimer's. What a scene. It's the scene for all the high society set from 1967 to 1998.

Before we begin our episode today, I see a few of you in our spy glass. I want to give enormous thanks to Debbie S and Kate M for their support over at Patreon.

Thank you for joining the community over there.

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So grateful for you for coming back to listen today.

Not enough thanks in the world to give all of you investigators you are simply the best.

Let's go ahead and dig into our episode.

Talk about Mortimer's, established and run by a man named Glenn Burnbaum, who is legendary for so many reasons,

and we're going to talk about a few of them today. You may already have heard of Mortimer's. If you've read Bonfire the Vanities by Tom

Wolf, Mortimer's is the clubby Upper East Side Restaurant depicted in that work. If you have read Dominic

Duns people like us, you will also know Mortimer's. It is all in that book. Chick, one of the characters

in the book, is modeled after Glenn Burnbaum. Dominic Dunn will pin an article for Vanity Fair

released in June of 1985 called The Mortimer's Bunch. This article is also included in his

Fatal Charms and Mansions of Limbo

collection. In 1985, this is still in Dominic Dunn's early days of writing. And we all know that

Nick is going to write what he knows about. And friends, in the mid-80s, it's Mortimer's. This is his

scene. These is his scene.

These are his people in the Upper East Side.

All the socialites, all the historic families who flirt with power and scandal and crime.

The Upper East Side is Nick's playground for all the gossip.

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