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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Merrill Gordon. Merrill is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author of several books, including Mrs. Astor Regrets and the Phantom of Fifth Avenue. She's also on the faculty of NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she teaches a very popular graduate level course on

journalism and magazine writing. And in addition to all that, she's a friend of mine of many years.

Merrill, welcome. Thank you, Doug. It's great to see you. The last time I saw you was our memorable

dinner right before the pandemic. It was my last dinner out with you and Megan before the world shut down.

So great to see you again.

We can mark timelines by COVID, unfortunately, but that's right. It was our pre-COVID dinner so long ago.

Happy things are better now.

Yes. Well, we'll be celebrating with your cocktail choice a gin and tonic, a classic.

So I'll get going on that.

This is, it feels like gin is making a nice little comeback, at least with the younger set, though.

I'm not sure Tonic is enjoying the same comeback.

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