Sonda Andersson, an art director at SPY, posted on Facebook these photos taken sometime in the summer of 1989 at Kurt Anderson and Anne Kreamer‘s second home up near Carmel in Putnam County. Good to see all these shiny happy faces.
Three cheers for Walter Kirn–the novelist, critic, and my friend and former colleague from Spy-–who slaps around David Denby in today’s New York Times Book Review in his review of Denby’s new book Snark: Denby pronounces Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd masters of “snarky mimesis” and settles on two epicenters of snark located on opposite …
My friend Gina Duclayan (center picture, foreground, in front of Kurt Andersen and her future husband Daniel Radosh) posted an album of photos from the Spy days on her facebook page. Fun to see the kids. (I wonder who got custody of the flag?) Shown in the enlargement-resistent photo at right (you’ll have to take …
The fabulous ASME Awards took place last night. Saw a lot of old friends, many of whom hauled away hardware. Congratulations to Jim Meigs, Susan Morrison, Michael Hainey and Graydon Carter, and consolations to Kurt Andersen, Rick Stengel and Walter Kirn. Playboy editors Amy Grace Loyd and AJ Baime keep a small carbon footprint as …
Nominations for the 2008 National Magazine Awards were announced yesterday, and I’m happy to say that a number of my friends and former colleagues are among the nominees. Popular Mechanics, which is edited by Jim Meigs, my former boss at Us, was nominated for Best Magazine with a circulation between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000, and also …