Monthly Archives: October 2012
THE OTHER SLANT: The New York Observer’s New EIC, Aaron Gell, talks Peter Kaplan, Jared Kushner, and the Salmon Weekly’s Future
When the economy tanked in 2008, Aaron Gell lost his post as executive editor of Radar, then a print magazine. To soften the blow, he started ASSME (American Society of Shitcanned Media Elites), inviting fellow fireds to meet, drink and discuss … Continue reading
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THE OTHER SLANT: Novelist John Reed Paves the Way for Repentant Book Critics
Last month, the novelist John Reed hosted “Revise & Recant,” a National Book Critics Circle event, where guilt-laden book reviewers took center stage to retract unfair or unnecessarily harsh critiques they’d written in the past. One by one, the repentant pundits … Continue reading
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