Keith Blanchard, the editor in chief of Maxim magazine, crawled from his cubicle to field a handful of questions about the deceptive world of publishing, weird Belgian ales and his intense love of gerbils. How do you account for the magazine's wild success? We launched at perhaps the darkest hour of men's magazines, when the three or four existing titles were unthinkably dusty, boring and irrelevant, with beautiful, provocative photos of .
If beautiful women, sports and alcohol are the secret to unlocking the male mind, then “lad” magazines have found the golden key. Maxim, FHM and Stuff have foregone the journalistic tendencies found in GQ and Esquire in favor of dick jokes and frozen food ratings — and with tremendous success.
"Hotel World" By Ali Smith 236 pages Anchor Books $9.60 "Hotel World" tells the story of five women whose lives cross paths one not-so-fateful evening. Each character is carefully contrived and the language is poetic. In just over 200 pages, Scottish author Ali Smith ponders and recreates the moments and encounters in life we usually let pass us by.
Justin Sassone’s grandmother died of bone cancer at 83 years old. Sassone was devastated. After spending much of his childhood in his grandmother’s care, her death sent him spiraling into a dark depression. Eighteen years old at the time, he began to see the world in shades of gray.
