What was it like working on those? I imagine you must have mentioned the Vanity Fair parties you held at the Hôtel du Cap during the Cannes Film Festival. You’ve written introductions for three books published this year: Tom Ford’s latest tome, a special publication Netflix put together about The Crown, and a book on the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. They’re beautiful artifacts, and if they’re really put together well, with high production values, people love having them, reading them, looking through them, and keeping them. I think they may go the way of vinyl, in the sense that young people love magazines. I don’t think magazines are going to go the way of VHS tapes. What do you think the future of the magazine business looks like? My oldest son, who is a writer and editor, said the other day that being an opinion columnist used to be the crowning achievement of somebody’s journalistic career, and now it’s the entry-level job: just sitting there in your bedroom, spewing opinions about things, some of which you probably know a lot about and some of which you probably don’t know that much about. The hard part is standing out so that the world will come to you.ĭo you think that it’s easier now for very talented people than it used to be? Now, everybody has access to the means of production. When I first came to New York, if you wanted to get something published, you needed to go to somebody who had the means of production, whether that was a book publishing company or a magazine publishing company or a newspaper. How do you feel about the state of the media industry right now, in particular as it pertains to what’s landing directly in your inbox? Now it seems like in the past year, every writer has their own Substack. You got into the newsletter game early with “Air Mail,” the weekly dispatch you started after leaving Vanity Fair. For our annual “The Originals” issue, we asked creatives-pioneers in the fields of art, design, fashion, comedy, activism, and more-to share their insights on staying true to themselves.
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