 In 1980 he published a controversial "roman a clef" called "The Club" about the nightclub Studio 54 that he co-wrote with a 21-year-old Studio 54 bartender, Robert Jon Cohen.As Robert Granit, he published "Another Runner in the Night" in 1981, a novel about a homosexual film producer married to the daughter of a studio boss.He coined the phrase "velvet mafia" in his "New York Sunday News" column in reference to the Robert Stigwood Organization, a British record company and management group, but the term soon began to be used to describe the influential gay crowd who ran Hollywood and the fashion industry.