6/1/2023 0 Comments Kevin kwan new book 2022![]() ![]() “This was so not it.” The family had a nineteenth-century barn with canoes and kayaks hanging from the rafters. “I had a fantasy of the Hamptons,” he said. ![]() She invited him to her family’s house on Long Island. Born into wealth in Singapore, Kwan, who is forty-seven, befriended a fellow rich kid when he was an intern at Interview magazine, in New York, in the late nineties. ![]() Kwan is good at finding mensches among millionaires. “They could have hopped on their planes, but didn’t,” he said. He did have a number of one-per-center friends, though, who surprised him. “It got to the point where I had to turn my phone off,” he said. “A whole population of the crazy rich moved to Hawaii.” But Kwan stayed put in L.A., scrolling until his thumb hurt. “People were partying in Santorini, going to Tulum,” Kwan, who wore a navy polo and round glasses, said the other day, at a rooftop restaurant in West Hollywood. Early in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel, “Sex and Vanity,” a guest at a crazy, rich, partially Asian wedding on the island of Capri observes, “Everybody with money has become so cookie-cutter-they dress the same, collect the same ten artists, stay at the same hotels.” She adds, “They all want to be miserable and dissatisfied in the same place”-which, for some of Kwan’s muses during the pandemic, meant wherever the masks were off. ![]()
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