Spring has arrived, Brooklyn’s turning hot, the editors are back on their tennis game, and TMN needs a new intern. We’re excited to announce that our most recent interns, Beth Milton and Nicole Pasulka, have accepted our offer to join the staff as Assistant Editors, and now we’
Dale Peck’s “judging” of McEwan’s and Smith’s novels shows that this self-proclaimed “most-hated man in publishing,” while lacking any critical acumen, possesses an unmatched ego. “Contemporary fiction’s nothing more than an enabler of certain bourgeois illusions” …”Social compact is spiritual and species suicide”…”literary
We are very excited to announce our newest Contributing Writer, Lauren Frey. By day Lauren hosts a classical music show for Sirius, but by night she’s a talented satirist and great all-around writer. (See here for her archive at TMN, particularly her recent Prufrock spoof.) Supposedly she can
Our main priority at TMN has always been to provide excellent stories: funny stories, sharp stories, stories you don’t read anywhere else, and all with tighter editing than Ron Perelman’s divorce papers. Falling a very distant second is our hunt for advertising—we’re writers and editors, not
TMN’s Contributing Illustrator Danny Gregory has a new book on the shelves, and we want to give you a copy…assuming your last name is MacGyver. We’ve got 10 books to give away, and here’s how it will go: Each weekday morning beginning today, for the next
We believe that advertising, when it’s done well, complements a magazine’s contents. It’s true: Some ads are beautiful, and some ads are CLICK HERE FOR A FREE IPOD SHUFFLE NOW distracting. Do you know the difference? Are you the type of person who, when you look down
The Morning News is seeking a copy editor. This is an unpaid position, but if the willing and able editor lives in New York City, he or she can expect drinks. Duties will include editing two to three articles a week for spelling, grammar, punctuation, factual accuracy, and style; regular
We are so excited about Gary Benchley, Rock Star—the fabulous new book that builds on (and completes!) Paul Ford’s much-loved series on TMN—that, starting today, and through October, we will be giving away one free copy of the book each weekday (thank you, Plume) to the
This summer has been brutally hot, plumb with hard work and big stories to watch, but luckily we had Summer Intern Heather to help us on all fronts. We’d like to take the time to thank her publicly for her hard work, and wish her the best in returning
Welcome to the new site! As always, thanks for visiting. If the reaction to when we launched our last redesign in April 2002 is any example, you “like the old design better.” Here’s a brief introduction to what’s new around here (a few things), what’s different (a
