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Fifty Years of New York Magazine

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Fifty Years of New York Magazine

New York, the city. New York, the magazine. A celebration.
The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead, one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple deadbolt locks, was reinvigorated by the twinned energies of starving artists and financial white knights. Over the next generation, the city was utterly transformed. It again became the capital of wealth and innovation, an engine of cultural vibrancy, a magnet for immigrants, and a city of endless possibility. It was the place to be—if you could afford it.

Since its founding in 1968, New York Magazine has told the story of that city's constant morphing, week after week. Covering culture high and low, the drama and scandal of politics and finance, through jubilant moments and immense tragedies, the magazine has hit readers where they live, with a sensibility as fast and funny and urbane as New York itself. From its early days publishing writers like Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and Gloria Steinem to its modern incarnation as a laboratory of inventive magazine-making, New York has had an extraordinary knack for catching the Zeitgeist and getting it on the page. It was among the originators of the New Journalism, publishing legendary stories whose authors infiltrated a Black Panther party in Leonard Bernstein's apartment, introduced us to the mother-daughter hermits living in the dilapidated estate known as Grey Gardens, launched Ms. Magazine, branded a group of up-and-coming teen stars "the Brat Pack," and effectively ended the career of Roger Ailes. Again and again, it introduced new words into the conversation—from "foodie" to "normcore"—and spotted fresh talent before just about anyone.

Along the way, those writers and their colleagues revealed what was most interesting at the forward edge of American culture—from the old Brooklyn of Saturday Night Fever to the new Brooklyn of artisanal food trucks, from the Wall Street crashes to the hedge-fund spoils, from The Godfather to Girls—in ways that were knowing, witty, sometimes weird, occasionally vulgar, and often unforgettable. On "The Approval Matrix," the magazine's beloved back-page feature, New York itself would fall at the crossroads of highbrow and lowbrow, and more brilliant than despicable. (Most of the time.)

Marking the magazine's fiftieth birthday, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 50 Years of New York draws from all that coverage to present an enormous, sweeping, idiosyncratic picture of a half-century at the center of the world. Through stories and images of power and money, movies and food, crises and family life, it constitutes an unparalleled history of that city's transformation, and of a New York City institution as well. It is packed with behind-the-scenes stories from New York's writers, editors, designers, and journalistic subjects—and frequently overflows its own pages onto spectacular foldouts. It's a big book for a big town.

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عدم رعایت حقوق نشر طبق قوانین جمهوری اسلامی ایران
محتوای مستهجن
توهین به قومیتها و محتوای نژادپرستی
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تاریخ انتشار

2017

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The Editors of New York Magazine

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Simon & Schuster

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9781501166853

20,000 تومان

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September 15, 2017
A great magazine is commemorated with an equally top-flight anthology.In 1967, Clay Felker assembled a group of journalists and editors in his Manhattan apartment with big plans, and they made good on them from the very start, making of New York magazine not just a chronicle of the city, but also a kind of microcosmic view of everything important and interesting everywhere. Write the current editors in their foreword, "Felker knew that a magazine grounded in the story of New York could also be a magazine about the whole world, and it is amazing how much history coursed through the city's streets." This oversized, overstuffed anthology makes a fine argument for just how true that is. Early on, for instance, comes Tom Wolfe's "eyewitness report" of the birth of the "New Journalism," for which he was largely responsible but for which New York made a welcoming vehicle. There are notes on the business and political ends of the enterprise, as well: Rupert Murdoch once owned the magazine but pretty much left it alone, while Michael Bloomberg was a constant source of fascination and copy--"the Bloombergification of New York," wrote Justin Davidson in 2013, "isn't complete yet, and won't be for a generation." There are a few greatest-hits bows, including, of course, Nik Cohn's story "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," the basis for the epochal movie Saturday Night Fever. More than that, the editors reproduce material that speaks not just to passing moments and fashions, but also to constant editorial emphases, such as high-quality artwork and portraiture, with pages devoted to Ali MacGraw, Pam Grier, Grace Jones, and other zeitgeist-y figures. On that note, the menacing photograph of Christopher Walken, who was probably aiming to look pleasant, is alone worth the price of admission, not to mention striking photos of a host of other actors, including John Lithgow, Steve Buscemi, and Edie Falco. History, local and global, unfolds in this fine gathering that represents a half-century and more than 2,300 issues.

January 1, 2018

In celebration of New York Magazine's 50th anniversary in 2018, the editors have compiled a retrospective of its transformation from a weekly supplement to the New York Herald Tribune to a vibrant guide to New York City's cultural and civic life and a significant source of national political news. This amply illustrated book includes an oral history as told by writers and staff, as well as excerpts and updates from previously published stories. Under the guidance of the first editor, Clay Felker, the magazine became a laboratory for notable writers and groundbreaking ideas, such as the development of the new journalism style by Tom Wolfe and the launching of Gloria Steinem's feminist platform, Ms. magazine. The history of the publication reflects the history of New York City over the past half-century, chronicling the revitalization from a dilapidated, crime-ridden nightmarescape of the 1960s and 1970s to the bustling, gentrified mecca it is today. Just as the city has transformed, so has the magazine and its website, which have become the go-to places for in-depth coverage of national politics. VERDICT This gift-worthy coffee-table book will delight readers of the magazine and enthusiasts of its namesake city.--Donna Marie Smith, Palm Beach Cty. Lib. Syst., FL

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