Time unveiled its new cover today and it features a stark, head-on portrait of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie with “The Boss” written below in red capitals.
Mr. Christie was on Today this morning to talk to Matt Lauer about gun control, Sandy relief and how the political gridlock in New Jersey is superior to that in Washington. Not surprisingly, the magazine cover story came up. Read More
On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of designing book covers for Knopf, Chip Kidd discusses the design for the cover of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84. Mr. Kidd engaged in “positive-negative play with the cover and the binding” that allows the subject on the cover to “exist in two different planes of reality.”
We recently asked David Remnick, in a live chat, whether he’d considered running a gay-marriage-themed New Yorker cover after the state government’s decision in favor of marriage equality. “I would not be surprised if there was one in time for the first wave of weddings,” he told us, though the decision came down Read More
Poets & Writers has issued a call for all New York City MFAs to gather in Central Park next week for a photo shoot.
Bring your student IDs and your memoirs!
Women are the new men. That is to say, women are taking control of everything. That is to say, it’s time to rethink masculinity.
Also, earlier this month Dan Abrams announced that he’s coming out with a book about how the second sex has become the first sex. Working title: Man Down.
Inspired by Jonathan Franzen’s big appearance on Time, HTMLGIANT proposes some other exciting author magazine covers.
As much as we like Sam Lipsyte on the cover of Yoga, we must say that Jonathan Safran Foer on the J. Crew catalogue (not strictly a magazine, yes) looks somehow the most plausible.
Jonathan Franzen is the first living American novelist to appear on the cover of Time in ten years, according to ArtsBeat. Stephen King was on the cover in 2000.
The magazine’s profile of Mr. Franzen dwells on the topic of otters:
Otters are congenitally happy beasts. Read More
Doree Shafrir writes for The Hollywood Reporter that three of the most prominent fashion magazines have selected women in their 40s to appear on their September covers. This will help them sell at the grocery store and the airport! Vogue has Halle Berry, 43; Harper’s Bazaar has Jennifer Aniston, 41; and Elle has Read More
Elle scored Julia Roberts for the September cover.
The Eat Pray Love star appeared on The Late Show last night. David Letterman held up the magazine (his had this image of Roberts and her son) and remarked how it was “just beautiful… because having you on the cover would be a lovely thing, Read More
