First Daughter of Mustique Elizabeth Hilfiger shouted "Is BryanBoy here?" The elusive Philippine blogger may not be, a P.R. type informed her. "BRYANBOY," she groaned, exhibiting a classic vocal fry. Nearby, Bradley Cooper discussed football with New York Giant Victor Cruz--"I'm an Eagles man myself," said the Limitless star--between posing for snaps with Read More
While the Giants clinched victory down in Indianapolis Sunday night, a contest of editorial mettle was taking place between New York’s top men’s magazines.
Shortly before kick-off, The New York Times reported that Hearst’s Esquire would post a movie-style trailer for a March print story about the Zanesville zoo massacre (remember when that suicidal exotic animal collector released 56 dangerous animals into a small town in Ohio?) along with a preview of the piece by Chris Jones. The latest in a series of editorial widgets (last month’s: a QR code on cover boy Bill Clinton’s crotch!), the trailer was designed to build buzz and boost sales of the print issue. The full story and a longer trailer would be online later, according to The Times. Read More
The March issues of rival men's magazines Esquire and GQ both feature stories about the Zanesville Zoo in Ohio, from which dozens of exotic animals were released last fall by the zoo's suicidal owner, Terry Thompson. Both pieces were written by men named Chris (Heath for GQ and Jones, for Esquire). Both are online Read More
Is method acting now extending into the realm governed by the publicist? While we don't recall Nicole Kidman shooting any Vanity Fair covers in early 2003 dressed as Virginia Woolf, Michelle Williams is on the cover of GQ (un)dressed as Marilyn Monroe, complete with peroxidey hair. If this cover looks familiar, it's a Read More
In 2010, flash sale giant Gilt Groupe dabbled in editorial content, restoring the glossy magazine editors felled by the axe of McKinsey & Company to their rightful, expense account-enabled glory, atop blogs like Gilt Taste, Insider, and MANual. Those operations may have been a drop in the bucket for the billion-dollar company, Read More
GQ's annual man of the year issue is a split run, with covers featuring veteran man of the year Jay-Z, newcomer Michael Fassbender, bromantic Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon, and Mila Kunis.
It's a quick return to GQ for Ms. Kunis, who shared its cover with a venti iced coffee in April. Read More
When Hugo Lindgren poached GQ story editor Joel Lovell for his revamp of The New York Times Magazine late last year, one bonus was that John Jeremiah Sullivan’s byline migrated alongside him. A"Southern editor" and essayist with a National Magazine Award under his belt, Mr. Sullivan was seen as a rising star among GQ Read More
Alexander Skarsgard was in town? Really? For something other than the Straw Dogs premiere? If the filming for What Maisie Knew was a little more conspicuous, we might have gone down to Chinatown and tried to talk to the True Blood star himself.
As it was, we just happened to stumble into the wrap party for the movie -- a Henry James novel adapted by way of The Squid and the Whale that costars Steve Coogan -- as it was winding down at a bar near 46th and 10th street last night.
"You just missed Julianne Moore!" one enthusiastically wasted crew member told us.
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When the journalist David Dobbs first had the idea of writing an article about his mother’s love affair with a flight surgeon during World War II, he initially went the traditional route: he pitched the story to several magazines. Mr. Dobbs, who has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired and National Geographic, usually writes about science, so the piece was a bit of a departure. The magazines he approached turned him down. He suspected at the time that the scale of the story was one problem—it was a complicated tale, hard to fit in a magazine, even at 6,000 or 8,000 words. Dedicated to his story despite the rejections, Mr. Dobbs started talking to Evan Ratliff, editor and co-founder of the online startup The Atavist, a self-described “boutique publishing house” that produces non-fiction articles for e-readers and smart phones. Read More
What makes a Molly?
Three well-known Internet writers--Molly Young, Molly Lambert, and Molly McAleer--share more than a name. The three have long attracted attention for their similar methods of self-promotion on the blogging platforms Tumblr and Twitter. Read More
What makes a Molly?
Three well-known Internet writers--Molly Young, Molly Lambert, and Molly McAleer--share more than a name. The three have long attracted attention for their similar methods of self-promotion on the blogging platforms Tumblr and Twitter.
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You don’t have to be named Molly to be a Molly, though it helps. Mollies Lambert, Young and McAleer got attention not merely for their Ringwaldian monikers but for their coyly insightful writing about pop culture, their minute observations, and the manner in which they promoted themselves via social media. They’re not the only Read More
This month's GQ cover story on New York Jets star Mark Sanchez (not online in full) mentions that "Sanchez hit the front page when a 17-year-old high school student from Connecticut told a gossipy sports site that she met him in a nightclub and they went on a date." The unnamed "gossipy sports site," Read More
It's 300 degrees outside and New York's male population is asking itself some burning questions: Is today the day I wear my short-sleeve cardigan? Why did I even buy that thing. Or, wow, glad I broke up with the girl who gave me that one. What was she thinking. GQ humbly offers to make Read More
2003: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Kate Hudson plays a beautiful reporter for a lightly fictionalized Cosmopolitan called Composure. 2004: 13 Going on 30: Jennifer Garner plays a beautiful editor at a lightly fictionized, let's say Elle, called Poise. 2006: The Devil Wears Prada: Meryl Streep plays the imperious editor of a Read More
