When I succeeded Tina Brown as the editor, in July , 1998 my only experience in editing a publication was a stint at my high-school newspaper.
Footnote: In 1991, when I was editing a publication for Forbes, I engaged in a hoax and briefly persuaded the world that the Russian government was preparing to auction off the body.
David Lee, who edits a publication called the Jackdaw (which describes itself as "nasty and critical of many things, and especially of the art establishment which stinks like the rotting carcase it is"), has been merrily suggesting that Arts Council England's money would be wisely used in mounting exhibitions of the works of Beryl Cook and Jack Vettriano.
She will be remembered as the joint-creator of an American institution, a great exponent of an underrated skill, editing, and one of the first women to edit a serious publication.
When, in 1936, the Popular Front government of Léon Blum came to power, Papon discovered that he was a socialist, and used his spare time to edit a leftwing publication, Le Jacobin.
He had known about the Hubbard-Lucchelli house from editing a 1990 publication, "Dutch by Design: Tradition and Change in Two Historic Brooklyn Houses" by Kevin Stayton, for the museum.
Seth Bookey, an Upper East Sider who edits a trade publication called Vision Monday, tells of the time an English friend came to visit and was shocked by the number of people lined up for takeout late at night.
He edited Poetry magazine, a publication of the Poetry Foundation, from 1969 to 1977.
Simon founded and edited Sick magazine, a publication that took the model of MAD magazine and ran from 1960 to 1980.
