The Uncancellation Era
Suzy Weiss: The Internet Ruined Their Lives. Now, They’re Back.
What does life look like after cancellation? James Frey and Lee Tilghman on public shame, letting go, and leaning into being outsiders.
By Suzy Weiss
was an early casualty of cancel culture. It was 2013. I was 17, and I had written a story for The Wall Street Journal about getting rejected from college that went viral. I bemoaned not having “killer SAT scores” and “two moms,” and the whole thing was a joke. Except, it attracted millions of reactions, most of them bad, that were chronicled all over the internet, but mostly on a website that I’d never visited before called Twitter. “I wish I could meet Suzy Lee Weiss so I could punch that whiny bitch in the face” is a representative tweet about me from around this time.
Overwhelmed, though deeply grateful my braces had already come off, I went on the Today show to clear my name, and hoped that after I did, I would never have to talk about the ordeal again. Reader, I’ve been talking about it for over a decade. But I’ll save the whole story for another day.
Getting canceled like this, a thoroughly modern phenomenon, is something we’ve written about many times here at The Free Press, and for good reason. Cancel culture ruins individual lives, but it also puts all of us on tenterhooks. By making an example of one person, it sends a message to everyone else: “Stay in line, or you’ll be next.”
Ping Pong Concerto
The A24 Project
A24’s Empire of Auteurs
The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too.
By Alex Barasch
In November of 2015, the upstart film studio A24 had a problem. Executives had acquired the writer-director Robert Eggers’s stark, unsettling début, “The Witch,” at the Sundance Film Festival and wanted to make it their first release to open on thousands of screens. But both Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred as a teen-ager tempted by unholy forces, were then unknown. The story, set in the sixteen-thirties and scripted in Early Modern English, was a tough sell. To generate buzz, the company sought an unlikely partner: the Satanic Temple.
People Are Awesome
Young Dad Was Getting Ready to Leap from Golden Gate Bridge — Then the ‘Miracle’ of a Stranger’s Voice Stopped Him
Kevin Berthia unexpectedly helped save Kevin Briggs’ life. Now the pair, “more like brothers” than friends, are looking back on the day that changed them both
By Johnny Dodd
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On the worst morning of his life, Kevin Berthia awoke and, after years of fighting with depression, decided that he was going to drive to the Golden Gate Bridge and jump.
Berthia, who was 22 years old at the time and living in Oakland, Calif., had never been to the famed landmark before and had to repeatedly ask for directions along the way.
But minutes after parking in a lot at the north end of the bridge on March 11, 2005, he left his keys in the ignition and took off walking along the 1.7-mile expanse, glancing down at the San Francisco Bay, telling himself, “The water is my freedom. I’m ready.”
Before long, the young man who had just lost his job and was overwhelmed by medical bills after the recent premature birth of his daughter scrambled over the railing and soon found himself balancing on a tiny metal conduit that ran along the outside of the bridge.
The frigid water of the bay churned 220 feet below him.
“I started my countdown,” Berthia recalls now. “And I braced myself for impact.”
Then something unexpected happened. Two decades later, Berthia still refers to it as “a miracle.”
Honey Deuce
The Honey Deuce Effect: How Tennis Perfected the Signature Cocktail
The US Open’s famous cocktail brings in more than $12 million. But its success, and that of its counterparts, is measured in more than sales.
Susan Czeterko Jordan has a shrine to a cocktail. In her apartment, a delicate watercolor print of the Honey Deuce, the signature drink of the US Open, hangs above a cabinet stuffed with commemorative plastic cups. She amassed the collection throughout more than a decade of attending the New York City tennis tournament, each time making a beeline for the blush-pink beverage.
“It’s refreshing, and it’s a status symbol,” she says. “Sometimes they even run out of cups by the end of the night.” When she got married, the number-one item on her registry was a melon baller so she could replicate the cocktail’s signature garnish: a trio of honeydew melon “tennis ball” spheres.
Saving The Canals
The coastal California community banding together to try and solve a tragic mystery
The Venice Canals have been rocked by a spate of dog illnesses and deaths this summer
By Paula Mejía, Contributing LA Culture Editor
Not long after Ramón J. Goñi moved to Los Angeles seven years ago, he went on a date. The pair strolled around the serene Venice Canals, a small Westside enclave with homes separated by shallow waterways. “What is this place?” Goñi remembers thinking. “And also, how many millions of dollars do you need to make to live in this place?” The area’s natural beauty stuck with Goñi, who originally hails from Madrid. “I was really attracted to that, but I thought it was never going to be possible to live here.”
But when the pandemic surged through Southern California a few years ago, rents dropped all across Los Angeles County. Suddenly, Goñi had some wiggle room to negotiate on monthly rental rates, and he nabbed a one-bedroom apartment in the back of a house along one of the canals. He soon realized he was far from the only renter in this idyllic slice of Venice, with homes that sell for $1.8 million on average, and found himself more connected to his neighbors given their proximity to one another in the car-free canals. “It’s really hard to be a complete isolationist living here,” he says. “The connections are going to happen, whether you want it or not.”
“James Frey Likes Smart People” – Dan
Record East Hampton Library Authors Night 2025 Crowd Admits They Read Books
George Hamilton is a groupie. Maureen Dowd is in here somewhere. James Frey likes smart people. Dr. Ruth is still alive, in a way. And Christie Brinkley wants Bobbi Brown’s book. Hold on, the Uptown Girl is posing for a selfie. Okay she’s back. The age-defying super model joined a record crowd for Authors Night in East Hampton’s Herrick Park Saturday.
Hold on, she’s posing again. Hey, she’s good at it.
I’m back mopping my brow and snaking through the crowd of A-List authors and their fans to benefit the East Hampton Library. “Maureen Dowd is here!” gushes Jill Brooke. The former CNN anchor has a website called FlowerPowerDaily so she’s looking for gardening tomes. “It’s like catnip. You discover books you may not have known about and meet the authors.”
AIwood
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?
LADY GAGA PROBABLY wasn’t thinking that a coup would unfold in her greenhouse. Then again, she was cohosting a party there with Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napster and first president of Facebook.
It was February 2024, and the singer had invited guests to her $22.5 million oceanside estate in Malibu to mark the launch of a skin-care nonprofit. One of the organization’s trustees was her boyfriend, whose day job was running the Parker Foundation. In the candlelit space, beside floor-to-ceiling windows that looked out over the Pacific, Parker’s people mingled with Gaga’s, nibbling focaccia and branzino alla brace to music from a string quartet (Grammy-winning, of course).
Authors Night Hamptons 2025
Authors Night Shines Bright in East Hampton
As the founder of BookTrib (and a book publicist with three decades of experience in the literary world), I’ve attended my fair share of fantastic book events. But there’s something undeniably special about the star-studded East Hampton Authors Night…
Christie Brinkley, whose new memoir Uptown Girl tells the story of her meteoric rise to fame, flashed her million-dollar smile.
Griffin Dunne, author of The Friday Afternoon Club (a perfect self-narrated audiobook listen that gives readers an inside look at the Los Angeles literary scene; highly recommend!), charmed the crowd with his Hollywood good looks and warm smile.
James Frey made a splash with his latest novel Next to Heaven, a dark thriller about a wealthy Connecticut town that sounds astonishingly similar to BookTrib HQ’s hometown of Westport, CT. (Come visit, James! We have questions!)
Odendaal’s Save
“Frictionless Solipsistic Efficiency”. Cool.
AI Demand-Shaping And The Frictionless Rub Of Solipsistic Efficiency
By Emil Steiner
In 1897, painter Frederic Remington wired New York Journal publisher William Randolph Hearst from Cuba with bad news. There was nothing to see, no war to illustrate. Hearst’s infamous reply: “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.” The apocryphal anecdote endures as a cautionary tale of media’s power to shape reality to its owners’ interests.
Broadly speaking, historians agree that the sensationalist reporting of Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine, which typified the Yellow Journalism era, contributed to the U.S. decision to enter the Spanish-American War in 1898. Hearst and other publishers, like Joseph Pulitzer, saw circulation spikes from their vivid, lurid, and constant coverage, facilitated by new technologies that brought battlefield color to readers at telegraphic speed. Narrative precedes truth. Sensation succeeds substance.
Modern Bleakness
C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness
Awe, Wonder and the Power of Enchantment
By Josh Appel
In the age of modernity, we find ourselves confronting a familiar affliction: bleakness. Our lives are marked by disillusionment. We doom-scroll, our eyes glazed over, while once useful dopamine receptors quietly shoot their last remaining endorphins. The YouTube rabbit hole is not so much an experience in enjoyment as much as it is a reflex of our current era. We watch videos of others cosplaying luxurious livelihoods all while sitting in a darkened room hoping for something more. And then what few icons we may look to as heroes the world often tells us are evil. To put it simply: in the era of algorithms and digital experiences we have become bored and uninspired.
The modern age has long been diagnosed as disenchanted. Max Weber famously spoke of the “disenchantment of the world” by which rationalization and secularization erode the magical and sacred dimensions of life. Jürgen Habermas extended this analysis, noting how modernity marginalizes religion from public reason, confining it to the private sphere thus stripping us of a shared moral tradition and language. Ernest Gellner added that industrial society, by its very logic, tends to suppress myth and tradition in favor of utilitarian norms. All three observed a flattening of experience — a world explained but no longer felt. However, C.S. Lewis, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and a religious apologist, noted that disenchantment also led to modern cynicism.
The Coolest Night In The Hamptons
Authors Night: The Premier Literary Event Of The Hamptons
On Saturday, August 9, the East Hampton Library will present its 21st Annual Authors Night fundraiser. One of the most popular and celebrity-studded events of the Hamptons’ summer calendar, Authors Night features 100 authors across all genres. The “Premier Literary Event of the Hamptons” has grown over its history to become one of the most successful celebrations of books and authors in America, and one of the largest library-author events of its kind in the country.
Participation authors include Lili Anolik, Elyce Arons, Sean Avery, Barry Avrich, Hilaria Baldwin, Kelly Bishop, Christie Brinkley, Bobbi Brown, Daria Burke, Alafair Burke, Nathaniel Butler, Blue Carreon, Robert A. Caro, Tom Clavin, Griffin Dunne, Maureen Dowd, James Frey, Paul Goldberger, Michael M. Grynbaum, Alex Guarnaschelli, Alice Harris, Helen A. Harrison, Madeleine Henry, A.M. Homes, Molly Jong-Fast, Lola Kirke, Nicola Kraus, Setha Low, Thomas Maier, Mary Ellen Matthews, Rue Matthiessen, Susan Morrison, David Netto, Annabel Monaghan, Zibby Owens, Owen Pataki, Chris Pavone, Dr. Nicholas Perricone, Jane L. Rosen, Jill Santopolo, Jessica Seinfeld, Peter Som, Christina Tosi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Glyn Vincent, Cynthia Weiner, Chris Whipple, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Tia Williams, Julian Zelizer, and many more.
Mr. Prince & The Esquires
Richard Prince’s Wily 7-Hour ‘Deposition’ Video Is an Instant Classic
Under oath, with big money on the line, the appropriation pioneer puts in a gallant performance.
I know that I am going to lose many of you right here at the start, but I have to insist that you watch the nearly 7-hour video deposition of Richard Prince that the artist recently exhibited in Rome.
It is an unexpectedly captivating endurance piece—frustrating, illuminating, baffling, and sometimes pretty funny. The Pictures Generation pioneer, who just turned 75, is one of our sharpest artists, but he is also prolific and uneven. Deposition (2025) is Prince at his best. I savored it in hour-long chunks over a week, and it reminded me of his rare abilities, while in some small way refreshing my faith in art.
Let’s set the scene….
Dial-up Dead
AOL dial-up says goodbye. Without Apple, it might not have changed the world
The longtime service took root on Apple computers 40 years ago. Here’s the story.
By Roman Loyola
You young whippersnappers out there, pull up a chair and let me tell you about a more innocent time. Way before you could connect to the internet out of thin air, you had to use what was called a dial-up connection. A box called a modem was connected to your computer, and it used a phone line to call a service provider that would give you access to a bulletin-board service (BBS; think of a BBS as an early form of Reddit). It took a few years before the BBS gave way to the web.
There were several dial-up service providers, but there was one that ruled them all: America Online, which became widely known as AOL. However, the days of AOL as a dial-up service provider are now over. According to an AOL support document, the company (it’s now part of Yahoo, which is owned by Apollo Global Management) has determined that the dial-up service will end on September 30.
More Robber Barons?
Maybe Our Railroads Need Some Robber Barons
Is Florida’s Brightline a remedy for our ailing rail system?
Americans like to believe we have the best of everything. But there’s one exception where people are willing to admit we fall short: high-speed rail. Americans travel to Europe or Japan or China, enjoy their high-speed rail experience, and wonder why we don’t have that here.
Amtrak’s Acela line in the Northeastern United States technically has sections that reach high-speed service levels but is far below the global standard. An Amtrak-led consortium says that it would cost $117 billion to upgrade the line to a true high-speed service. This is a cost level that’s far out of line with global norms, but sadly consistent with the extraordinary costs we’ve come to expect from American rail projects. The New York Times once called the Second Avenue Subway extension in New York the most expensive mile of subway track on earth for example. American rail projects cost multiples of what other countries spend; the Times, for example, notes that the East Side Access rail project in New York was seven times the global average construction cost.
C’est toujours aussi bon
Is Perrier as pure as it claims? The bottled water scandal gripping France
by Hugh Schofield
France’s multi-billion euro mineral water companies are under the spotlight because of climate change and growing concerns about the industry’s environmental impact.
At issue is whether some world-famous brands, notably the iconic Perrier label, can even continue calling themselves “natural mineral water”.
A decision in the Perrier case is due in the coming months. It follows revelations in the French media about illicit filtration systems that have been widely used in the industry, apparently because of worries about water contamination, after years of drought linked to climate change.
Skynet Coming
James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised
Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project
The director James Cameron has warned that the use of artificial intelligence in a global arms race could lead to the kind of dystopia fictionalised in his Terminator franchise.
Speaking to Rolling Stone to promote the publication of Ghosts of Hiroshima, an account of the first atomic bombing by bestselling author Charles Pellegrino which Cameron intends to adapt for the big screen, the film-maker behind three of the four highest-grossing films of all time (Titanic and the first two Avatar films), said that although he relies on AI professionally, he remains concerned about what might happen if it was leveraged with nihilistic intent.
“I do think there’s still a danger of a Terminator-style apocalypse where you put AI together with weapons systems, even up to the level of nuclear weapon systems, nuclear defence counterstrike, all that stuff,” Cameron said. “Because the theatre of operations is so rapid, the decision windows are so fast, it would take a super-intelligence to be able to process it, and maybe we’ll be smart and keep a human in the loop.
Born To Be Wired
The Confessions of John Malone, Media’s Most Misunderstood Mogul
In this exclusive excerpt from his new memoir ‘Born to Be Wired,’ the battle-scarred billionaire candidly reflects on his (mostly) friendly rivalries with Reed Hastings, Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner and how he built a sprawling empire while living with autism.
BY JOHN MALONE
The most valuable assets in any business are people and relationships.
I may have neglected to appreciate this at the time, when we were down in the fray. Now that I am a bit older and slowing down, just a little, I have realized that, all along, the most important element was who was involved, not what. The people whom I befriended, learned from, and fought against — rather than the deals or the payoff — gave me the most satisfaction. And the right people produced the highest upside — giving my journey meaning and enriching my knowledge of the world.
It has been enormously exciting and at the same time gratifying to play a role in the digital revolution. Our original intent was to deliver broadcast TV signals to far-flung rural valleys and mountainous terrain that antennas couldn’t reach. That very same cable evolved into the backbone of the broadband network better known today as the internet, three decades after we at Tele-Communications began laying down lines.
Clankers
Is an AI backlash brewing? What ‘clanker’ says about growing frustrations with emerging tech
A slur for robots and AI has emerged online in recent weeks, offering some sense of growing societal anxiety with increasingly capable technology.
By Jason Abbruzzese and Rob Wile
It’s a slur for the AI age.
“Clanker,” a word that traces back to a Star Wars video game, has emerged in recent weeks as the internet’s favorite epithet for any kind of technology looking to replace humans. On TikTok, people harass robots in stores and on sidewalks with it. Search interest for the term has spiked. On X, Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., used the term last week to tout a new piece of legislation.
“Sick of yelling “REPRESENTATIVE” into the phone 10 times just to talk to a human being?,” he posted on X. “My new bill makes sure you don’t have to talk to a clanker if you don’t want to.”
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity,
The Creative Legacy of Ray and Charles Eames Finds a New Home
Architects Herzog and de Meuron will design the new museum in the heart of Marin County.
by Min Chen
Ray and Charles Eames revolutionized midcentury design—now, their legacy is getting a new home. A museum opening in California will celebrate the couple’s singular creative universe and its lasting impact on art and design.
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, the organization dedicated to stewarding the Eameses’ legacy, will be transforming the former Birkenstock campus in Marin County into a museum. Swiss architect giant Herzog and de Meuron has been tasked with converting the 88-acre site into a public space set to host exhibitions, workshops, educational programming, and retail offerings.
Shooting The Moon
The asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?
The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds.
The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun. But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon.
Discovered at the end of 2024, the space rock looked at first as if it might hit our planet by December 22, 2032. The chance of that impact changed with every new observation, peaking at 3.1% in February — odds that made it the riskiest asteroid ever observed.
Tinshemet Cave
A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
SHOHAM, Israel (AP) — Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits.
The findings at Tinshemet Cave in central Israel, published in an academic journal earlier this year, build on previous discoveries in northern Israel and add to a growing understanding of the origins of human burial.
Of particular interest to archaeologists are objects found beside the remains that may have been used during ceremonies to honor the dead and could shed light on how our ancient ancestors thought about spirituality and the afterlife.
They Aren’t Going To Need Us
WILD VIDEO SHOWS ROBOT CHANGING ITS OWN BATTERY
As we continue on our path towards a potential future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain point of the tech: a limited battery life.
Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs — a “world’s first,” seemingly — which means the 95-pound automaton could technically work 24 hours a day, an integral part of fully automated “dark factories” that never need to keep the lights on.
Video footage shows the robot walking up to a rack of swappable batteries. After unnaturally flipping its arms around, the automaton replaces one of its two battery packs in its back before going on its merry way.
Ozzy Gone
Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76
The heavy metal legend recently played his final concert on July 5.
Ozzy Osbourne, the pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman whose star turn on reality TV endeared him to a new generation of fans, has died, his family announced Tuesday. He was 76 years old.
“It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the family said in a statement signed by Osbourne’s wife Sharon, as well as his children Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis. “He was with his family and surrounded by love.”
They added, “We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.”
News of Osbourne’s death comes 17 days after he performed his final show in Birmingham, England, alongside his former Black Sabbath bandmates at the Back to the Beginning benefit concert.
Where is Six?
Why The I Am Number Four Franchise Was Canceled
BY JOE ROBERTS
Adapting young adult fiction has been a reliable approach for Hollywood, especially in a post-“Twilight” world. That stupid lightning in a bottle phenomenon gave rise to multiple imitators, whether it was books or adaptations of those books — some of which were more successful than others. 2011’s “I Am Number Four” was one of the less successful examples.
Directed by D.J. Caruso (“Disturbia,” “Eagle Eye”), the science-fiction action film was based on the 2010 novel of the same name. The book itself was written by Pittacus Lore (a collective pseudonym for authors James Frey and Jobie Hughes) and represented the inaugural Lorien Legacies novel in what is a seven-novel series that has also produced multiple spin-off and sequel series. Even before the book eventually became a hit, though, a bidding war had erupted for the film rights. In June 2009, J. J. Abrams faced off against Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay for a shot at adapting the property, with the latter winning out in the end. HarperCollins won the book rights soon after, and “l Am Number Four” spent seven weeks at number one on the children’s New York Times bestseller list.
Sneak Peaking
Galley Envy
Could the most coveted object of the summer be an uncorrected manuscript you can’t even buy?
Paperback advance reader copies were once sent to critics and booksellers to secure review attention and favorable retail placement. More recently, they have been showing up in the hands of actors and influencers, tucked into designer totes, perched on beach chairs, or featured on Instagram Stories shot in Montauk, resting on linen-covered laps beside sweating glasses of wine. What used to be industry ephemera has become the status galley, a new form of cultural currency.
“I think that the human condition is to show that you have something before someone else, especially if it’s desirable,” says Chris Black, the co-host of the popular podcast How Long Gone.“But I also think, with books, it makes you seemingly smart or at least look smart. And that’s in addition to being ahead of the curve, which I think is always something we’re striving for.”
Walk The Day Awake
“The Surprising Benefits of a Morning Walk.”
Impact of morning walk on Physical and Mental Health
by Mj writes
It is widely known that morning walks can help your physical as well as your mental health start a new day on the right note. Daily morning walking helps in the improvement of cardiovascular health, as it acts as a regimen that regulates blood circulation, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. It also helps exercise burning of calories to achieve the required amount of energy needed in a calorie reduction process, a prerequisite for achievement of a slender body.
From these effects of walking, it is evident that it has positive impact on muscles as well enhancing the health of joints particularly for people experiencing arthritis or any other joint conditions. It also strengthens musculoskeletal and postural structures and thus decreases the likelihood of falls in anyone, more particularly the elderly.
Beyond “The Bird”
New Canaan’s Notorious Neighbor – James Frey’s Fictional Drama Hits Close to Home
by Jill Johnson
THE APPROACH TO JAMES FREY’S HOUSE FEELS LIKE A DRIVE THROUGH THE PAGES OF HIS LATEST BOOK
The landscape unfolds with rambling farmhouses and faux French chateaus—each boasting a dozen bathrooms and perimeters marked by quaint fieldstone walls that quiet the opulence. It’s particularly picturesque in the bloom of spring, as perfect as New Bethlehem, the fictional town where Frey’s book, Next to Heaven, is set.
It’s no secret that the setting is modeled on New Canaan; the town’s history, outlined in detail by Frey, and its shops, landmarks and parks mirror our own. But are the characters ours, too? That’s the question that left some residents sleepless in their Frette linens as they anticipated the book’s release in June. And now that the juicy novel is out, reading lights are burning bright across the “Next Station to Heaven.”
In his newest release, Frey draws from the salacious novels of Jackie Collins and Danielle Steele—surprising inspirations for an author who says he pursued writing because of men like Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Kurt Vonnegut. But Frey is not what one might expect from a man quick to give the world the middle finger.
Frey’s neighborhood is dotted with the occasional modern home, placing us squarely in The Ice Storm country. New Canaan was also the setting for Ang Lee’s 1997 film based on Rick Moody’s eponymous novel about a key party that wreaks havoc on its characters’ lives and community. Next to Heaven features its own spouse-swapping shindig. It’s the kind of thing that can make a small town edgy. Was it based on an actual swingers party? My mission would be to find out.
Pickle Golf
Golf’s Answer to Pickleball Is Spreading Across the US
Park golf is picking up steam
There’s a sport gaining ground in the United States that has numerous similarities to an already-popular sport here, but with slightly different gear and played with larger balls. If you’re thinking to yourself, “Yeah, we know about pickleball already,” well, it’s not pickleball. The sport is park golf, developed in Japan in the 1980s and beginning to make its presence felt globally.
One park golf course recently opened in the New York metropolitan area — specifically, at Great Gorge Golf Club in Vernon, New Jersey. The club in question has a long history (including an early connection to the Playboy Club) and currently touts the presence of a Tom Fazio-designed course on the premises. As NJ.com’s Rob Jennings reports, though, that’s no longer the only game in town.