Posts Tagged with "Wolfe"

Interesting People: Tom Wolfe on Clay Felker

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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Outside of the magazine business, few have heard of editor Clay Felker (1925-2008). Some of this is the nature of the product; magazines tend to age like eclairs, and when was the last time you heard of a famous baker? But from 1963 to 1977, Felker’s weekly New York was always hot and fresh, and [...]

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Unpacking my feelings about David Foster Wallace

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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The New Statesman has an interesting article about David Foster Wallace in light of his suicide. For various reasons, lately I’ve become more interested in Wallace, even though I have read only a smattering of his work. I am too impatient to enjoy his longer-form writing, as virtuosic as it clearly is. I acknowledge its [...]

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Clay Felker, RIP

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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Legendary editor Clay Felker has died at 82; here’s the NYT obit. Along with his one-time Esquire-mate Harold Hayes, Felker has always been a bit of a hero of mine. His New York continued in the 70s what Hayes had demonstrated in the 60s: the vision of a magazine as a beautiful, lively, important thing. [...]

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You all might as well know…

Thursday, October 30, 2003

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…that I have a soft spot for Hugh Hefner. First of all, he ran his college humor magazine (at the University of Illinois, called I believe The Shaft–but maybe that’s just too perfect). Second, in the 50s and 60s, he was a real champion of comedy and cartooning–and he remains a proponent of jazz. All [...]

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