It’s a miraculous marriage of the19th Century Gilded Age and Wall Street’s junk-bond era, but without 1880s social snobbery or 1980s excess. The brasserie swirls nightly with merry-making ...

Cynthia Weiner’s debut novel, “A Gorgeous Excitement” (Crown) takes its title from a Sigmund Freud quote about how much he loved cocaine, and its major plot points from a real-life tragedy ...