Feature Articles Quotes

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death... This was Tina Brown.But they paid me for it. So I've got this big chunk of a piece, and Rolling Stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. But then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. That was fun.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.