'Brainy Young' Editors Giddy With 'New York' Mag Power
As the Observer Mobsters reported yesterday, next week's New York mag will prostrate itself before four "Brainy Young Things," the "youthful, erudite whippersnappers" who had recently taken over some of "America's oldest and most venerable magazines. They're James Bennet of The Atlantic, Franklin Foer of the New Republic, The Paris Review's Philip Gourevitch, and Roger Hodge of Harper's. We got a quick preview of the text, and we admit we're intrigued, especially by a quote from Hodge:
"We're all sort of the anti-blogs," says Roger Hodge, the new editor of Harper's. "And I think we will eventually triumph over the blogs!"
That's big talk. Especially from a guy whose mag would be bankrupt if the MacArthur Foundation didn't fund it.
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'New York' Mag to Spotlight New(ish), Young(ish) Editors [Media Mob/NYO]