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Archives for September 24, 2008

September 24, 2008 By Michelle V. Rafter

Thank you Clay Felker for creating New West

Clay Felker is the reason I got into magazine journalism. Felker, who died last week at 82, was better known as the editor of New York and Esquire and champion of New Journalism, as this New York Times’ remembrance so aptly summarizes. But to me he’ll always be the guy who started New West. In […]

Filed Under: Freelancing, Writing Tagged With: Clay Felker, Joan Didion, magazine journalism, New West, Ruth Reichl

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