Christopher Tennant

For the English businessman, see Hartlepool.

Christopher Tennant (born August 17, 1978) is an American magazine editor, artist, and author of The Official Filthy Rich Handbook, published by Workman Publishing in June 2008.

The Official Filthy Rich Handbook—a satirical guide to fitting in with America’s “top .0001 percent”—was pitched as a “quasi-sequel”^[1] to the best-selling 1980 classic The Official Preppy Handbook, also published by Workman. It was excerpted^[2] in the June 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, and received notice^[3] for its effusive blurbs by Tom Wolfe, Dominick Dunne, and P. J. O'Rourke, who called it "A paragon of naked wit."^[4]

After stints at New York magazine and Talk, in 2003 Tennant co-founded Radar magazine and Radaronline.com, the on-again, off-again^[5] satirical pop culture magazine and web site. He left the magazine in February 2008 to finish work on his book.^[6]

According to the New York Post, Tennant coined the popular portmanteau "celebutard" as a "Page Six" freelancer in 2006.^[7]

Tennant graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2000 with degrees in political science and journalism. While at Madison, he served as Editor in Chief of the Badger Herald, the nation's largest independent daily student newspaper. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Executive Editor of The Daily, a cheeky fashion glossy distributed at New York Fashion Week. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and editor at large of Playboy.

In 2011, he launched ^[8] a side career making Victorian-style aquatic dioramas^[9]

He lives in Greenwich Village and Bellport, New York.

Bibliography

• "The Official Filthy Rich Handbook" - 2008 ISBN 0761147039 (author)

Notes

1. ^ Swindle, Jaime (6-25-08): "The Official Filthy Rich Handbook", Seattle Weekly. Retrieved on 11-16-08.
2. ^ Hutton, Punch (June 2008): "Fanfair", Vanity Fair, June, 2008. Retrieved on 11-16-08.
3. ^ Stadtmiller, Mandy (5-28-08): "The Right Blurb Can Make Sales Superb", New York Post. Retrieved on 11-16-08.
4. ^ News & Reviews, The Official Filthy Rich Handbook. Retrieved on 11-17-08
5. ^ Koblin, John (10-24-08): "Radar Shutting Down (Again.)", New York Observer. Retrieved 11-16-08.
6. ^ Media Mob (2-27-08): "Radar's Deputy Editor Chis Tennant is Out", New York Observer. Retrieved on 11-17-08.
7. ^ Johnson, Richard (2-4-09): "Happy To Share With Andrea", New York Post. Retrieved on 6-12-09.
8. ^ Smith, Emily (5-26-11): "Aquatic Style", New York Post. Retrieved on 10-19-11.
9. ^ Preiser, Amy (6-9-11): "Backstory: Christopher Tennant's Aquatic Cases", "AOL Shelterpop. Retrieved on 10-19-11.

Official Filthy Rich Handbook

• The Official Filthy Rich Handbook (official site)
• "The Laugh of Luxury", Boston Globe (profile)
• "The Filthy Rich Celebrate Their Bible", Vanity Fair
• "The £5o Club", The Times (book excerpt)
• "Summer Reading List", Style.com
• "Jet Set Confidential", BlackBook (book excerpt)
• "A Filthy Good Time", New York Post's "Page Six"
• "A Beautiful Day in June", New York Social Diary
• "Find of the Day", Forbes
• "Recommended Reading", Harper's Bazaar
• "That's Rich!", Boston Herald
• “Lifestyles of the Rich and Ridiculous”, Boston Globe (video interview)
• "Smoking Hot Reads For Beach-Bound Travelers", CTV Canada
• “Love That Wealth”, New York Post
• BlogTalk Radio (audio interview)
• Sound Authors (interview transcript)
• “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, New England Cable News (video interview)
• Valleywag.com (tagged posts)
• New York Times' T magazine (guest blog posts)

Aquatic Cases

• Aquatic Cases (official site)
• "Fresh Picks in Design", Wall Street Journal
• "Aquatic Style", New York Post
• "Playboy Editor Jimmy Jellinek Gets Crabs From VF Contributor Christopher Tennant", New York Observer
• "Backstory: Christopher Tennant's Aquatic Cases", AOL Shelterpop
• "Inside Christopher Tennant's Wild Underwater Worlds", Avenue

Journalism

• Vanity Fair (article archive)
• New York (article archive)
• "The Consiglieri of the Magazine World", Gawker

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