Winter 1989:
December 1990:
January/February 1991:
October - December 1996:
Also important to note that the timeframe Glamorama takes place in is meant to parallel The Rules of Attraction's, which also takes place from October to December.
“Did you attend Camden College in New Hampshire during the years 1982 to, ah, 1988?” Palakon asks gently.2.Staring back at him, I blankly answer, “I took half a year off.” Pause. “Actually four of them.”
“Was the first one in the fall of 1985?” Palakon asks.
“What year did your father move back to Washington from New York?” Stephen asks.3.“It was the year Mom died,” I say.
...we’d have sad conversations about how much she hated her mother and wished she was dead like my mother was.4.
“You must remember Lauren, Victor.” She says this sighing, looking away. “Lauren Hynde?”5.“It doesn’t ring a bell,” I say blankly. “Why? Should it?”
“You left me for her.”
[...]
“No, I remember her,” I say, looking directly at Jamie. “But I also remember that I’d taken a term off and when I came back in December you weren’t around —”
“Do you know when the last time I saw you was, Victor?” she asks, her back to me.6.[...]
“In 1985,” she says. “Years ago.”
“Jesus, baby.”
“When you told me you’d come pick me up. At Camden.”
“Pick you up from where?”
“My dorm,” she says. “It was December and there was snow and you were supposed to drive me back to New York.”
“Lauren Hynde died in … December 1985 … in a car accident … outside Camden, New Hampshire.”7.
He gave his last interview to Esquire during the winter of 1989, which was where he said, not at all defensively, “I know exactly what I’m going to do and where I’m going,” and then he more or less just vacated the New York fashion scene—all this before my life in the city really began, before I was known as Victor Ward, before I met Chloe.8.
"...in December 1990 [...] I wanted something else … and then there was what Bobby wanted … and in our meeting I … evolved .… Bobby came in and saw how limited my world was … and he motivated me."9.
Sinead O’Connor was singing “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance” [...] and I had just met Chloe earlier that week.
Sinead O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got", the album “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance” is on, was released on July 1, 1990.
10.MTV: “Where did you meet?”
ME: “At a pre-Grammy dinner.”
Assuming he isn't lying ... the 1991 Grammys took place on February 20, 1991.
Using 1991 because the Grammys typically take place in February/March. "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got" was released in July, so it couldn't be 1990.
11.Chloe was born in 1970, a Pisces and a CAA client.12.
“Victor, I’m twenty-six. That’s a hundred and five in model years.”
Said by Chloe.
13.Four weeks ago I was on a ship in the middle of an ocean.14.Four weeks ago on that ship there was blood pooled behind a toilet in the cabin of a doomed girl.
Four weeks ago I was in London at a party in Notting Hill.
Four weeks ago I was meeting Bobby Hughes. Jamie Fields hugged me while I stood screaming in a basement corridor.
Four weeks ago I was not in New York City.
“We think this has to do with a bombing scheduled for Friday,” Palakon says matter-of-factly. “That date is November 15.”
The two quotes above take place in the same day so... the possible days this conversation is taking place are November 10-14. The story starts a day before the club opens. The day after the opening is when Victor boards the QE2.
Also according to Victor, on the day the club opens: "Top fee for a DJ on a Thursday night in Manhattan is five hundred."
So, it's: October 9 is when the novel starts. October 10 the club opens. October 11 boards the QE2. Or something along those lines.
This tracks because aboard the QE2 Victor notices that there's no moon. October 12, 1996 was a day with a new moon, otherwise known as when the moon is least visible.
15.
Finally Dad and Lorrie Wallace at Carol Laxalt’s annual Christmas party. Dad’s standing by a poinsettia. He’s shaking John Warner’s hand.And in the background, sipping punch from a tiny glass cup, is F. Fred Palakon, a giant Christmas tree twinkling behind him.