In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar Read More
Among last week’s list of National Magazine Award finalists was a title unknown to most New Yorkers: 5280, the city magazine of Denver, made the cut in two categories. But the byline on those stories was not so new: Both were by Maximillian Potter.
Mr. Potter, 33, abandoned New York in 2003, after being chewed Read More
May 15 – May 22, 2002
Wednesday 15th
Parry and thrust! Ladies, remember how right after Sept. 11, it seemed as if men were due for a big comeback -how all that lifting and welding and rescuing just made us want to roll over, give up and get pregnant ? That belief evaporates with Read More
Wednesday 19th
Granger goes grunge? Here’s how it works this office-party season: People are still having parties, but the way to do it is sort of quietly and abashedly, a not-a-party party, which always results in some interesting fashion choices. In other words, fancy New York companies are now having office parties that resemble office Read More
Remember the 25-year-old pampered superstar employee? Fair-cheeked, witty and well-educated, these workplace Mariahs were coveted by New York employers, who lavished them with chubby salaries, titles and perks. The kids worked long hours, but they also got to wear Radiohead T-shirts to client meetings and play Nerf golf in the corridors, and they never, ever Read More
Jimmy Breslin has done it again-said the thing that wasn’t supposed to be said. The thing everybody in City Hall didn’t feel right about reporting, or couldn’t nail down. It’s the biggest, sloppiest, scariest rumor down in Room 9, but it’s been simmering for so long nobody’s been thinking much about it. And Jimmy, well Read More
For a little over a week now, the most coveted invitation in the Manhattan magazine world has been for a seat at a wooden table in a conference room at Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Union Square West offices. There, Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Red Dogs –or most of it–exists as a foot-high stack of paper, Read More
For a little over a week now, the most coveted invitation in the Manhattan magazine world has been for a seat at a wooden table in a conference room at Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Union Square West offices. There, Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Red Dogs –or most of it–exists as a foot-high stack of paper, Read More
Every summer, the editors and writers who work at GQ magazine go on a retreat at the Connecticut country home of the magazine’s editor in chief, Art Cooper. None of them fears the savage round-robin tennis tournament or the sometimes intense work sessions. But they do get a little nervous about the … cheese course. Read More
Wednesday, December 10
Dateline NBC The Dateline cult-i.e., the roughly 400 employees who put this NBC cash cow on your TV set four nights a week-finally get to lay their eyes on their gods, anchors Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, and executive producer Neal Shapiro, who is referred to around the offices simply Read More
