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Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable - Fifty Years of New York Magazine (Hardcover)
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Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable - Fifty Years of New York Magazine (Hardcover)
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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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