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By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/28/12 2:54pm

A Banner Week for Real (and Fake) Peter Kaplan

M, the magazine for “The New Class of Man” hit newsstands on Monday. The relaunch of the men’s lifestyle glossy with heavy matte paper stock was excitedly heralded by a profile of M editor (and former longtime New York Observer editor) Peter Kaplan in The New Republic.

But nobody has been more fired up about the new mag than the Twitter feed @real_kaplan. The parody feed, which is written by former Observer staffers Peter Stevenson and Jim Windolf, has long furthered the legend of Mr. Kaplan’s New York, old-school sensibility. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/23/12 10:53am

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Newsweek Creative Director Poached by The New Republic

Could an era of less splashy Newsweek covers be at hand–or has the final control between Tina Brown and utterly unfiltered buzz been removed? Dirk Barnett, the creative director of Tina Brown’s Newsweek—and thus the man responsible for the Photoshopped “Diana at 50″ cover, the “first gay president” cover and a phallic asparagus that we Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/15/12 8:58am

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Fall In! We Devour 2,754 Pages of September Issues

For fashion editors, all roads lead to September: this month’s rag mags, engorged with advertisements, represent the triumph of the hypercapitalist ethos, the huge and the loud. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/14/12 10:06am

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The Great Gatsby’s Destruction of Editorial Calendars Has Begun

The Great Gatsby, the biggest movie of this winter until it was to be the biggest movie of next summer, has screwed its first magazine with its release-date switch. Gatsby is the lead item in Elle‘s September-issue fall preview, with the magazine noting, “Opening day is December 25; our champagne is already on ice.” (Better make sure Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/07/12 2:02pm

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Perplexing New Yorker Ad Features Lena Dunham, Jon Hamm, Alex Karpovsky

We’re not sure what this video, uploaded by the New Yorker, is intended to do: it appears to be a five-minute parody of an old talk show, as hosted by Jon Hamm, with Girls‘s Lena Dunham playing “Lanny Donhom” (spelled phonetically), a rising starlet. What is this making fun of? Why would a Johnny Carson-era talk show Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/06/12 3:08pm

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Which Magazines Are the Most Screwed by Gatsby Switch?

The highly-anticipated Great Gatsby re-boot (or whatever!) was to be released this Christmas, but it’s avoiding the Anna Karenina/Django Unchained/Hobbit pile-up with a move to next summer. Totally speculating here: this throws the editorial calendars of several top magazines into chaos. Herewith, our deeply un-educated guesses on the stories and cover lines editors are stuck with: Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/05/12 12:10pm

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Lead Times Wreak Havoc on Katie Holmes, Frank Ocean Profiles

There’s no way in this go-go 24-hour news cycle to present a fully up-to-date profile of any celebrity. Take, for instance, the case of Katie Holmes, who was to be a boring August Elle cover subject until her divorce filing from Tom Cruise.

If the timelines regarding her “daring escape” are to be Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 6/14/12 10:58am

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Lady Gaga to Cover Vogue September Issue

Following in the footsteps of recent September cover stars Kate Moss, Halle Berry, and Charlize Theron, pop singer Lady Gaga has reportedly shot the September 2012 Vogue cover. Lady Gaga was previously featured on the magazine in March 2011 (that cover is at left); perhaps, in addition to promoting her new fragrance, she’s to Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 1/31/12 10:34am

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‘Vanity Fair’ Hollywood Issue Cover Drops, With Some Risky Bets on Starlets’ Prospects

Seeing stars!

Since 1995, Vanity Fair has released an annual gatefold cover spotlighting hot new stars (with occasional breaks for covers featuring “legends” or Barack Obama). This is a risky game: the 1995 cover featured Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Julianne Moore, while the 2000 cover included Read More

By Emily Witt 6:07pm

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Larry McMurtry to Substitute for Zadie Smith at Harper’s

Zadie Smith is going on leave for an “indefinite period” from writing the New Books column at Harper’s magazine, according to the AP. The author of Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, will be writing it instead. Editor Ellen Rosenbush’s declared goal of getting more women published in the magazine seems to be on track, however. Read More

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A Banner Week for Real (and Fake) Peter Kaplan

Newsweek Creative Director Poached by The New Republic

Fall In! We Devour 2,754 Pages of September Issues

The Great Gatsby’s Destruction of Editorial Calendars Has Begun

Perplexing New Yorker Ad Features Lena Dunham, Jon Hamm, Alex Karpovsky

Which Magazines Are the Most Screwed by Gatsby Switch?

Lead Times Wreak Havoc on Katie Holmes, Frank Ocean Profiles

Lady Gaga to Cover Vogue September Issue

‘Vanity Fair’ Hollywood Issue Cover Drops, With Some Risky Bets on Starlets’ Prospects

Larry McMurtry to Substitute for Zadie Smith at Harper’s

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