James Brady

Are magazines dead? Not to Esquire editor David Granger, who talked to Forbes' James Brady on the occasion of his magazine's 75th anniversary. (Remember that lite brite cover? It's coming!)

When asked by Mr. Brady if the golden age of magazines had passed, Mr. Granger responds:

I completely reject that idea... Some of the best magazine journalism I know of is running right now in Esquire and The New Yorker and New York magazine and a lot of others. Cincinnati has a great [local] magazine, and there's a new one in Denver called 5280, for the city's altitude in feet, and there are plenty more.  read more »

Forbes and Parade chatter-hound James Brady reports today on his annual leg-humping trip to Hearst boss Cathie Black's Christmas party. There was "TV's gorgeous Deborah Norville," "the tall, striking Atoosa Rubenstein," "Ken Auletta...that wonderful writer," "Kate White, blond and lovely"...

And then there was this other guy:

David Hershey, editor of Esquire, informed me he has now been in that job for ten years. Since I had once myself been a Hearst Magazines editor and publisher who lasted only 17 months before being canned, I expressed my admiration for David's longevity and for his revitalization of the grand old book.

David must have been glad to hear that--whichever David it may have been, or however he might spell it.

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