FROM NEW YORK MAGAZINE’S FASHION DEPARTMENT. . .
Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. I believe this deserves three vas and a voom.
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MANAGERIAL TIPS FROM THE SPORTS PAGES
Last Wednesday, the sports pages of The New York Times had two wonderful anecdotes, one about managerial leadership, and one about the art of negotiation. In the first, by William C. Rhoden, Emerson Boozer, a star running back on the Super Bowl II-winning Jets, told a story about the key role played by the team’s …
STEVE LOVELADY 1943-2010
My friend Steve Lovelady died on January 15. He and I worked together at Time in 1997 and 1998, and although I didn’t have a lot of interaction with him, I found him to smart, decent, tough but low-key, enormously effective, a top-notch editor. And in fact, he was the one who sent me along …
WHEN WALTER FIRST WENT UP IN THE AIR
Many years ago, Walter Kirn worked in the cubicle next to me at Spy, and he was a most entertaining neighbor (in fact, Walter was succeeded by Jim Collins and then by Larry Doyle. On the other side, I had Joanne Gruber. Spy provided me with tremendous neighbors.) During Walter’s short tenure, we spent pretty …
ONE MORE. . .
From Art Director Richard Weigand, a love letter to writers on the cover of Esquire‘s 40th anniversary issue in October 1973, showing contributors John Kenneth Galbraith, Tom Wolfe, Nora Ephron, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Alan Arthur, Murray Kempton, John Updike, William Styron, Gay Talese, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Dwight Macdonald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James …
WONDERFUL COVERS
Cleaning out the attic, I came upon a box dating from when I was a teenager, which as sure as anything, should have predicted that I would end up with a career in magazines. Great covers–brilliant covers! The concepts, the execution, the photograph and illustration. Makes my heart go pitty pat!
LOOKING BACK ON 2010
On thenation.com, we wonder: how well do you remember the year to come? 1. 2010’s highest-rated TV program was: A. The Apprentice Gets a Shot at Love, in which the member of a talk show’s production staff vie to be selected as the host’s mistress. B. American Death Panel, in which judges Simon Cowell, Michelle …
AMAZON’S TAKES A SHOT AT THE GOOGLE MONOLITH
Here’s a bit of remarkable news that arrived over the weekend: Amazon.com’s Kindle, through The Atlantic, is going to sell short stories. They’re going to start with two stories, one by Christopher Buckley and one by Edna O’Brien, and they’re going to charge readers $3.99 to read the stories. The only place a reader will …
BACK IN THE DAY, IN THE BACK OF THE OFFICE
My friend Julie Mihaly, Spy‘s clever, creative photo editor in the Puck Building days and for a spell on Union Square as well, saw the photos I had posted on the blog here and here and here and here, and decided to do some local photo research–local, like in her own photo albums–to see what …