“Magazines bring us together into real communities.”
Graydon Goes Shopping
The Air Mail founder and long-time Vanity Fair EIC opens a newsstand and shop in New York’s West Village.
Described by The New York Times as “a kind of kitchen-sink New Yorker,” The Bitter Southerner began as a digital magazine and evolved into print. Cofounder Kyle Tibbs Jones talks about how the magazine got its start.
The Norman Rockwell Museum presents history-making women in US premiere of Anita Kunz’s Original Sisters.
In this (potentially triggering) excerpt from his excellent book, Dilettante, author Dana Brown describes the beginning of the end in gory detail.
The one with the Texas tuxedo.
Country music stars Eric Church and Morgan Wallen will relaunch the hunting, fishing, and outdoors brand digitally, in print, and through a live music festival.
The legendary Vogue editor expands her brand.
The one with the unscheduled “business” meeting
After ending its print run in 2019, a beloved humor magazine gets the last laugh with a major exhibit this summer.
Why did WeWork founder Adam Neumann buy a surfing magazine? To build an all-encompassing lifestyle corporation. Probably.
For the entire time I’ve worked in magazines, I’ve been told that print is dead. But what does that actually mean?
The one with an egg in a bag.
The uneasy marriage of a magazine legend and a scoop machine.
A group of passionate admirers have curated the ultimate retrospective of one of the most important magazines ever produced.
In Marfa, Texas, you can (maybe) glimpse a future for independent media.
The one where I made you ask.
Author Terry McDonell made a deal with fellow Hearst editor—and best friend—Liz Tilberis: “She would help me with Esquire’s fashion and I would help her with ‘getting on in America.’”
Shoe horns, lampshades and CBD-infused elixirs are among the goods Graydon Carter is selling at a new newsstand-style shop in New York.
The one with the Chappaqua Squawker
Wednesday is a new magazine they call “The Bible of Dark Culture.”
The one where I fly too close to the sun.
In this excerpt from his new book, Fast Company designer Mike Schnaidt explains how to establish your creative voice in just three days.
Fifty years ago, Texas Monthly was little more than an idea dreamt up by a local lawyer with minimal experience in journalism. Then it was an actual thing. How did that happen?
An oral history of how the pre-eminent media organization of the 20th century ended up on the scrap heap.
In his 2018 TED talk, illustrator Christoph Niemann lets his pictures do the talking.
Media is broken. Mountain Gazette is here to fix it.
Welcome to the first post on my effing commute.
A travel writer looks back at a magazine that dreamed big. (And went nowhere).
In 1999, Dan Okrent saw the future of the magazine business and raised the alarm. Very few paid attention. And now you’re listening to a podcast called Print Is Dead.