Editorial Director James Truman Resigns, Again; Will Found Media Company

Former Conde Nast editorial director James Truman has resigned his job as editorial director of Louise T. Blouin Macbain’s media company.

He informed Ms. MacBain last week, in person, in London, that his resignation was effective immediately.

The debut issue of LTB Media’s ‘Culture and Travel’ was recently celebrated at Ms. MacBain’s Richard Meier penthouse. Read More

Off the Record

If I’m in a pugnacious mood, I write,” Martin Peretz said. “If I’m not, I don’t.”

Mr. Peretz, the editor in chief and part owner of The New Republic, was on the phone Aug. 8 from his home in Cambridge, Mass. He had turned off the television to take the call. Mr. Peretz Read More

Ms. MacBain Presents

Like an ambassador from an alien land populated with smarter, taller and richer blond bombshells, Louise T. Blouin MacBain stood behind a podium in a Columbia University auditorium. She asked the assembled spectators if the leaders of the planet Earth did “not require a new, more creative brain in this new evolution of mankind?”

The Read More

S. I. Newhouse

This fall, S.I. Newhouse Jr. moved House and Garden out of Condé Nast’s headquarters at 4 Times Square. It was the first title to leave the flagship Condé building since it opened in 1999.

But House and Garden will still be in a Condé Nast building: the new 258,000-square-foot space at 750 Third Avenue, Read More

Truman’s Zen Retreat

There is no conflict, James Truman said. He was referring to his recent month-long retreat in Woodstock with a pair of Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and whether or not it clashed with his role as editorial director of Condé Nast.

“You want to find a contradiction between my post-retreat self and the magazines that I oversee,” Read More