I JUST THINK IT NEEDED A LITTLE BIT MORE OF AN IMPROVISATIONAL, WE-JUST-DID-IT-THIS-WEEK KIND OF FEELING: New editor Hugo Lindgren talks up more of the changes starting in this week's NYT Magazine. Among those which will delight: instead of Cooking with Dexter (and others), three Mark Bittman columns a month (and one from Sam Sifton). Also: Nate Silver sneaks in once a month, and, yes, Dr. Lisa Sanders's "Diagnosis" stays. This may not suck.
added: Just unveiled -- The 6th Floor, the Magazine's new blog.
More Nate Silver is almost always good (though I hope he'll do more non-partisan-political stuff like his long piece for NY Mag about "best NY neighborhoods" and his "was the trade for Carmelo worth it?" piece) and I think Matt Bai is far better in long form than in short form. (I'll admit that his "The Argument" certainly affected my POTUS primary preferences.) Still unclear--is the pretty wildly scattershot "Lives" sticking with the back page?
ReplyDeleteTwo weeks ago, I rode the train with Bittman. I was reading the magazine at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was kind of horrified by the last Cooking with Dexter column, where the author revealed that it was largely his wife who did all the cooking, with or without Dexter. I mean, it was sweet, the way he honored her, but it was a multi-year column that implied he cooked with his son.
ReplyDeleteReally will not miss Deborah Salomon!