Specs Current gig Editor in chief of Esquire; editorial director of Town & Country Previous gig Editor in chief of Town & Country Age 46 Twitter @jayfielden Adweek: Growing up, were you an Esquire reader? Jay Fielden: Sure I was. I tell this story in my first editor's letter, when I was about 13 or 14 and growing up in San Antonio, I started getting into magazines, and Esquire and The New Yorker were two magazines that I just got curious about and wanted to know more about. They were probably both a little above my head at the time. But I started having that experience with magazines that I envision still being the most powerful thing a magazine can do, that kind of religious conversion where you realize you want to see this thing every month. So that was the beginning. What made Esquire such an important brand? Because it was genre-busting. When you have Nora Ephron writing about breasts, when you have Joan Didion writing for it, when you do the kind of covers they did, a lot of it punched through the culture. It was something highly relevant, on the pulse, fitfully trying to and succeeding at often leading the cultural conversation, saying things no one else was, doing things no one else was. What changes will you be bringing to the magazine? Even though there's a tremendous history there, this is a moment where you have to pretend there's no history and see it as just a reboot and an opportunity to ask the hardest questions. I just spent five... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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A debut, a sequel, the first of a new fantasy trilogy and more were among the books discussed at BookExpo America 2014's YA Editors' Buzz Panel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gillian Flynn is the latest writer to sign up to the Hogarth Shakespeare series. The initiative... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PW catches up with the editor of "The Harry Quebert Affair," John Siciliano, to discuss high expectations, the difficulty of importing blockbusters and the fact that, occasionally, something French can be fun. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ed Park stands in stark contrast to the image some have of Amazon in the book publishing industry—a demonic force gobbling up the little guy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hearst Corp. president and CEO Steve Swartz and Hearst Magazines president David Carey looked inward in recruiting four-year Redbook editor-in-chief Jill Herzig for the same position at Dr. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Many agents and editors use M.F.A. programs as resources for finding new talent. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emma Mitchell has been appointed as senior editor for Cornerstone imprints William Heinemann,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Geographic Society announced a large structural reorganization of the nonprofit’s media operations April 30 that broadened roles for three veteran executives and newcomer Susan Goldberg who has been promoted as the first female editor-in-chief of National Geographic Magazine. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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USC Press has announced Nikky Finney will take over as editor of its Palmetto Poetry Series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Born to a family of readers, Christen Karniski comes by her love of books naturally. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In three days of meetings in the latest of our semiannual Religion Summits, fourteen religion/spirituality publishers presented their new and forthcoming books and talked about the challenges of the business. We heard about new voices to watch for and rising topics. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guggenheim Media Entertainment Group named Tony Gervino, former executive editor at Hearst Magazines International, successor to Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Bill Werde, as editor Joe Levy shifts responsibility to the new position of editor-at-large on April 28. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hello, and welcome to your new 'Cooking the Books.' Beginning with this issue, we'll be landing in your inbox twice every month, bringing you even more news, interviews, deals, reviews, and forward-looking coverage of cookbooks and other writing from the world of food and drink. And as the newly... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Having grown up in Troy, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, Courtney Young is no stranger to the automotive industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Lauf, publisher of Quartz, spoke at Digiday Publishing Summit about what the site has learned by focusing on design, useful content and shareability in its native ad programs. The key, he said, is the sales side thinking like editors.The post The Quartz secret to great native ads: Think like... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kraig is perhaps best known as the author of "Modern Magick," published in 1988. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editors from Algonquin Books, Oxford University Press and Dalkey Archive discuss the first books they acquired, in an interview with Matt Seidel for The Millions. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The editor and translator of Olga Grjasnowa’s All Russians Love Birch Trees, as part of the Publishing the World book club, reflect on the novel and publication. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Eleanor Catton and her editor Max Porter's alliance shows how much more than wielding a blade goes into this relationshipHenry James called editing "the butchers' trade". But he also said, "I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort," so you can see how the old anglophile... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lucia will lead our publishing coverage, digging into the evolution of traditional publishers and the rise of new powers. She joins us from Adweek, where she was a senior editor. Lucia will start at Digiday on March 20.The post Digiday welcomes Lucia Moses as our new senior editor appeared first... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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