Well, I'm going to keep the magazine news coming so I can continue to use the "Elephant" image (the official symbol of the National Magazine Awards) in the corner. I'm too lazy to scan a new item today.

According to Pop Culture Junk Mail, there are two magazine-related books out now: "Renata Adler's Gone, a tell-all about life at the New Yorker, and Slab Rat, a lightly fictionalized novel about working on the lower rungs of NY's magazine world, by Ted "son of Joseph" Heller".

I read an excerpt of 'Gone' in the Globe and Mail a couple weeks back and it painted a impressive picture. Imagine a magazine that did not enforce a deadline on its writers and would wire money to them without question. That was the New Yorker in its heyday and that is why, I'm guessing, it's called 'Gone'.