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Mental Floss staff

Mental Floss: The Magazine That Breaks All the Rules of Publishing

Mental Floss, which launched out of a Duke dorm room back in 2000, in many ways anticipated the type of evergreen, list-driven content that would eventually become popular on an Internet that was not yet ubiquitous.
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

New ‘Domino’ Decorates Newsstands

When news broke last summer that Domino was coming back, the fan base of the much-loved shelter magazine reacted with
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

The Media, Unexamined No More

The pop philosopher and self-help author Alain de Botton has taken on an impressively wide array of subjects, such as
By Matthew Kassel

All Aboard! Amtrak Residency Makes Writers Yearn To Ride The Rails

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Astronomy magazine

A Media Galaxy Far, Far Away: <em>Astronomy</em> Lands In New York

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The New York Times Feminist Reading Group

Call It the Gray Womyn: Reading <em>The New York Times</em> From a Feminist Perspective

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story

Gawker Throws Party To Celebrate Robyn Doolittle’s <em>Crazy Town</em>

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

Can a City Hall Reporter Date the Mayor’s Spokesperson?

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Buzzfeed Brews with Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Lauria.

<em>Seinfeld</em>-Schisms: Jerry’s Tried-And-True Methods of Ball-Busting Divert Buzzfeed Interview

By Drew Grant
The Loudest Voice in the Room cover

A Roomful of Loud Voices: Gabriel Sherman’s Publication Week

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Mike Albo

Mike Albo and the Magical Junket

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Mayor de Blasio press conference

Bill de Blasio Off to Rocky Start With Reporters

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Daily News Cover

Tabloid War Ramps Up: The <em>Daily News</em> Goes After The <em>Post</em>

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Clyde Haberman reflects on 37 years at the Times.

Clyde Haberman’s Last Bite

By Matthew Kassel

Peter Kaplan’s Media Shadow

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Adweek's Hot List

<em>Adweek</em>’s Hot List Goes IRL

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Cosmo's January cover

Hearst Hosts <em>Cosmo</em> Reader Night

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
The Fix logo

A Quick Fix for The Fix

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Tabloid Baby

Tabloid Wars Hit the Delivery Room

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Nick Denton and Henry Blodget

Nick Denton and Henry Blodget Have Fun With Merger Rumors

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
New York Review of Books 50th Cover

<em>The New York Review of Books</em> Keeps The Golden Jubilee Celebration Going All Year

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Glamour December cover

Lady’s Not Gaga Over <em>Glamour</em> Cover

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Lockhart Steele. (Patrick McMullan)

Lockhart Steele Curbs His Enthusiasm

By Drew Grant

Meet The Frackers: Two Books By <em>Journal</em> Writers Explore The Hydraulic Fracturing Boom

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
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