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  • July 2008

    • Wolfe on Felker: New York Was His Invention

      New York  |  Jul 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      Wolfe on Felker: New York Was His Invention

      (Newser) - Tom Wolfe writes with great fondness—and more than a little self-indulgence—about the giddy heyday of the New Journalism, when he and Clay Felker, the legendary magazine editor who died last week, collaborated on the invention of New York magazine. With a gimlet eye for status and boundless social appetites--one year he claimed to have eaten dinner at home only eight times—Felker created a sociology of the fabulous and stylish, enabling Wolfe to write some of his best and most influential work. More »

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      New York City  • Tom Wolfe  • Clay Felker

    • Legendary New York Editor Dead at 82

      New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Legendary New York Editor Dead at 82

      (Newser) - Clay Felker, founder and editor of New York magazine, died today at 82. Felker was the pioneer of a distinctive format that has become the model for weekly magazines: long, novelistic features alongside short, spicy service pieces. "Clay was obsessed with power, and he invented a magazine in the image of that obsession," current New York editor Adam Moss told the New York Times. More »

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      obituary  • New York  • journalism  • magazine  • magazine industry  • print journalism  • magazine publishing  • Clay Felker  • print industry

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